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Silencing Women’s Voices: Time To Speak Up
I was riveted by the recent story of an Orthodox Israeli young woman, Ophir Ben-Shetreet, who sang…
Broadcast Your Best Self: Creating a Culture of Serious Leisure in a Digital Age
Our children today are growing up in an environment at once bothintimidating and inviting, where…
The Value of Truth: Jonah the son of Amittai, Les Miserables, and Kafka
We saw the Broadway revival of Les Miserables with our children and other family members a short…
Rabbinic Authority and Public Policy
Many years ago Garelick Farms decided to market its milk all-natural, which meant that it needed a…
Weaving a tapestry of personal narratives in the Swedish countryside
Last Wednesday night, after eating and clearing a dinner of tomato soup, garlic bread and…
Survival of the Self: Continuously Cultivating an Independent Identity
Like everyone else, I balance different aspects of my identity: American, Jew, New Yorker,…
New Circumstances Demand New Halachic Views: A Response to Rabbi Mordechai Willig
The recent piece (“Trampled Laws,” originally published by Torahweb.org and reprinted by the Jewish…
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January 28, 2025
Holding the Holy and the Broken
September 4, 2024
Last night, this morning, today: A diary entry
April 21, 2023
Jewish Leadership: The Power of the Many
In her essay Women & Power: A Manifesto, classicist Mary Beard prompts us to think about power in ways that are countercultural to current norms. Power, she argues, is often treated as “something…
April 21, 2023
Picasso’s Bull as a Template for Teshuvah
A series of eleven lithographs by Picasso might not seem themost likely of “texts” upon which to meditate in the weeks anddays leading up to Yom Kippur. We are generally directed to poreover the laws…
January 18, 2023
The power of presence: Havruta learning toward original Jewish pedagogy, practice and paradigms
Jewish educators are, by nature, responsive and reactive. They are required to deliberately infuse Jewish content in teaching students and communities that are dynamic. In the past two and a half…
January 5, 2023
Safety and the Creation of Sacred Spaces: Ancient Models and Contemporary Takeaways
Space informs practice within it. It affects how we spiritually engage, how we socialize, how we conduct our professional environments, how we live in our homes. As philosopher Alain de Botton put…
December 14, 2022
Creating Sacred Space as a Jewish Pedagogy
Creating sacred space refers to deliberately defining, giving express purpose to, and sanctifying space through restriction/limitation. After having spent many years teaching in a variety of…
July 31, 2022
An Experiential Approach to Tisha B’Av: Action Leads to Feeling
Tisha B’Av: The peak of a reversed Avelut process Tisha B’Av is the Jewish people’s national day of mourning. It is the day on which we sit shiva and mourn the loss of our Holy Temple – as well as…
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February 15, 2013
Silencing Women’s Voices: Time To Speak Up

October 3, 2014
The Value of Truth: Jonah the son of Amittai, Les Miserables, and Kafka

November 15, 2014
Rabbinic Authority and Public Policy

June 12, 2015
Weaving a tapestry of personal narratives in the Swedish countryside

July 6, 2015
Survival of the Self: Continuously Cultivating an Independent Identity

August 20, 2015
New Circumstances Demand New Halachic Views: A Response to Rabbi Mordechai Willig
