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Friday, October 3, 2025
Kol Nidre 5786: Only Empathy Gives Birth to Hope--Combatting Christian Nationalism With Fierce Love
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I am old enough to have lived through some contentious times. In my boyhood, growing up ten minutes outside Washington, DC, I witnessed maj...
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Rosh Hashanah Morning 5786: Coming Down
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In 1999, an old controversy was rekindled when a team of mountaineers found the body of George Mallory buried beneath a slope of frozen scre...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Erev Rosh Hashanah 5786: All You Need is Vav
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Rosh Hashanah holds within its name a paradox, for the word shanah —or “year”—comes from a Hebrew root that points to two seemingly opposite...
Thursday, December 26, 2024
A Top Dozen: My Twelve Favorite Albums of 2024
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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...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Walking Hadrian's Wall
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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...
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Busy Being Born
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Thirty-six years—which is to say, double “Chai” or two Jewish lifetimes ago—I received my rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College....
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Monday, January 15, 2024
People Get Ready: Lessons in Liberation from Moses and Motown
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Special thanks to the Idaho Human Rights Commission, for the opportunity to speak at today's MLK celebration, and to Cherie Buckner-Webb...
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