Rabbi’s Thoughts

1) You’ll be sharing an experience that Jews all around the globe are experiencing. 2) You’ll have a chance to see your Board of Directors cut loose. 3) It [...]

Each February the Jewish world raises awareness about disability-related issues by marking Jewish Disability Awareness Month. To prepare myself for that annual encounter, and my need to deepen my [...]

Are you a maker of new year resolutions? Even if you are not, I hope that you will resolve to do the following: read the essay by Atul Gawande [...]

I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and [...]

These are fearsome times. From the moment we awaken until the time we close our eyes for the night, there is no shortage of alarming facts, reports and images [...]

Did you have one? A childhood imaginary friend? “Many young children (about 65 percent) develop imaginary friends between the ages of 3 and 5, at a time when they [...]

Were I asked to sum up, in one word, the High Holy Days experience, I would choose the word “change” and I think it fair to say that “praying [...]

Early July brought us the grim news of the murder of three Jewish Israeli teens followed by the even more gruesome revenge murder of a Palestinian teen. What followed [...]

The Last Things I’ll Remember (Joyce Sutphen) The partly open hay barn door, white frame around the darkness, the broken board, small enough for a child to slip through. [...]

May, 2014 marked a wonderful and important milestone in the life of our nation, the tenth anniversary of Massachusetts becoming the first state in the nation to establish equal [...]