This week’s Torah portion is filled with gems. After Moses calls upon the Israelites to contribute skills and goods for the desert sanctuary [...]

Yesterday I wrote about how the Torah portion could be read to address the importance of upholding empathy even as we embrace our [...]

How do we deal with troubling texts from our Jewish tradition? That’s an important question posed by the second sentence of this week’s [...]

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 [...]

We began this week remembering the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, who asserted that “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: [...]

Then the Eternal said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order [...]

In November of 1938, my grandparents left their own town of Essen, Germany and walked the streets of another village where no one [...]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of [...]

Mark Twain is attributed with saying: “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” As Jewish Americans struggle to understand and process the [...]

1st Day of Hanukkah | Candle #2 Tonight View Hanukkah Schedule This week, Rabbi Ron Stern shares some Hanukkah meditations to get you [...]