In honor of Shabbat Shirah and Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, I have put together the video above. This Shabbat, Shabbat Shirah (Shabbat of Song), we read Mi…
The Talmud says: “Teach your tongue to say: I do not know. If you don’t, you will become entangled in a web of deceit.” (Berakhot 4a) At the foundation of…
Last Friday, I got to witness something so beautiful. We had grandparent’s Shabbat in our Early Childhood Center. As I looked out at the children, who were so…
There are a reported 15,166,200 Jews on the face of the earth. While this might seem like an impressive number, we all know that we Jews make up a tiny…
Another school shooting, this time in Michigan. Too many murders in cities and towns across our country. So much violence undermining the sanctity of life. The sanctity of…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmBibh16vUQ&t=4s As events at home and abroad, including the court cases that are making headlines, the attack in Wisconsin and the murder of Eli Kay z”l in Jerusalem,…
As the polls have now closed, the votes are being counted and the voices of the people are being heard, please God, help us to lie down in…
The Jewish calendar takes us on a bit of a roller coaster during the summer. Last Saturday/Sunday, we marked one of the darkest days of the Jewish year,…
A Mother’s Day Tale/Midrash (originally posted Mother’s Day 2015) At the beginning of time, God created the plants and the trees, the Sun and the Moon. God created…
While for some, the college admission scandal that made headlines early last week feels like old news, it’s still something that I’ve been thinking a lot about. I’d…
Stephen Hawking’s final book, Brief Answers to Big Questions, was published earlier this week, seven months after his passing. In it, Hawking, a brilliant physicist, cosmologist and mathematician explains that “the universe…