This sermon was delivered at Yom Kippur services on Saturday, September 30, 2017. Spoiler alert: For those of you who didn’t see “Wonder Woman,” I will be giving away major plot points. This summer I watched the…
On August 13, I was standing in the airport in Lisbon. We were coming back from a truly wonderful trip in Israel and Portugal. In Lisbon, I visited the site of the massacre of 1506. In 1497,…
This sermon was delivered at Erev Rosh Hashanah services on Wednesday, September 20, 2017. The Buddhist teacher Ajahn Brahm tells a story about his early days as a Buddhist monk, when he joined a Thai monastery. He…
Please use the comment form below to share your memories of our beloved friend and Etz Hayim member Alan Youkeles. May his memory be for a blessing. If you would like to make a donation in Alan’s…
Warning: If you want to read the article referred in this piece, please ask me for a copy. I do not want to raise the internet profile of the author by increasing her web traffic. The more…
When you read this column you will either be preparing for Pessah, or there already. You should already be receiving the fruits of The Wisdom Project, the texts/tweets/e-mails from our congregation that remind you to count the…
I am not a big fan of Matzah. No matter what you do with Matzah, I never feel that it is really great. No one I know says: “The stuff right out of the box is great!”…
I am officially giving up on my course of study for the upcoming syium, and I am going to do something simpler. I will study a Seder from the Mishnah now, instead of trying to finish Massecher…