Consider for a moment the purpose of a birthday celebration. We gather to rejoice in the being of the person whose birth we are commemorating. We are grateful and happy that this person came [...]

I knew Brad Lander when we were teenagers. Not well. We weren't close friends. But we moved in the same circles, NFTY conventions, the Reform Jewish youth movement that shaped so many of us who [...]

This evening of Shabbat falls on Juneteenth, a federal holiday since 2021. It relates in powerful ways to core values in our Jewish tradition, and should matter deeply to us especially given important relationships that [...]

This Shabbat has special personal resonance for me. Parashat Sh’lach L’cha is the parasha of my bar mitzvah — just a few years back, a little more than four decades ago. Embedded in this portion is [...]

June is Pride Month — named for the Stonewall Uprising of June 1969, when a movement for full inclusion and equal rights for all people regardless of their sexuality or gender identity changed the [...]