HolidaysMy latest blog post is cross-posted at the Huffington Post. What would Passover be without the Ten Plagues? Or even worse, what would it be without Charlton Heston and the Ten Commandments? While the Four Questions and the four cups of wine tend to get a lot of attention — the number 10 deserves attention [...]
Some thoughts I wrote for Martin Luther King’s birthday observance, which was yesterday. When most of us think of Martin Luther King Jr., his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech comes to mind. But King delivered another, lesser-known speech in 1968 at Ebenezer Baptist Church, called “Unfulfilled Dreams.” In this sermon, King recognized that we [...]
Eating Chinese food and watching a movie is a totally fun Christmas day activity (even if it’s a bit cliche these days). But this year I decided to add a new Christmas tradition. Yesterday, I was an elf. Yup. It’s true. Most days I am a rabbi, but yesterday I was an elf. I have [...]
The High Holidays are coming (Rosh Hashanah is on September 16-17 and Yom Kippur is on September 25-26). For me, that means lots of sermon writing and other preparation. It also means that it’s time to prepare for one of our most meaningful events of the year – our online Yom Kippur Memorial Service. We [...]
