When I was eleven months old, my parents heard me singing along in the backseat of the car to Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t [...]

Rabbi Sari and I both recently attended a virtual course through the Hadar Institute (a wonderful egalitarian Jewish education organization) around themes of [...]

Throughout our country today we commemorate Memorial Day, a day reserved to honor and grieve those who died while serving in the United [...]

Holy Nourishment  by Cantor Emma Lutz It’s hard to imagine what it was like for our ancestors to leave Egypt in such a [...]

לַיְּהוּדִים הָיְתָה אוֹרָה וְשִׂמְחָה, וְשָׂשֹׂן וִיקָר The Jews had light and gladness, joy and honor. (Esther 8:16) Last night, many of us gathered together [...]

One day, the villagers noticed that their teacher, Rabbi Natan Tzvi Finkel (b. 1849), also known as the Alter of Slabodka (say that [...]

The Divine Presence only dwells in a space where there is joy; the prophets did not experience prophecy whenever they desired. Instead, they [...]

When I think about Purim, I have so many happy memories—hilarious costume parades, different flavors of hamantaschen (team poppy seed!), and the many [...]

אוֹר זָרֻעַ לַצַּדִּיק וּלְיִשְׁרֵי-לֵב שִׂמְחָה Light is sown for the righteous, and for the upright of heart, joy! During the Hebrew month of [...]

This week's Torah portion is Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23) which contains the Ten Commandments. Each day, a member of the Wise clergy will share [...]