At Home and On the Road

While 2024 was, in many ways, an austere year filled with war and ugly politics, it gave us some great music.  My twelve favorite albums—one...

For a link to a 13 minute video of my coast-to-coast walk across England on the Hadrian's Wall path last month, see: https://vimeo.com/1...

Thirty-six years—which is to say, double “Chai” or two Jewish lifetimes ago—I received my rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College....

Special thanks to the Idaho Human Rights Commission, for the opportunity to speak at today's MLK celebration, and to Cherie Buckner-Webb...

As their favorite season drew closer this year The Jews down in Jew-ville lacked Chanukah cheer They all loved this holiday, boychiks and ma...

In this dark and difficult time—as in so many dark and difficult times past—Torah offers guidance.   In the midst of the conflict in Israel ...

Ecclesiastes teaches that there is a season for every experience under heaven: Eit leh’ehov v’eit lisno, eit milchamah v’eit shalom A time t...