August 2015

What is Anger For?

There are three (types) of people the Holy One loves: One who does not get angry. One who does not ...

As this summer, and this Jewish year wind down, I’m completing the painting and writing for my fourth illuminated book ...

The High Holy Days are three weeks away. Phone conversations with colleagues nearly always begin with, “Are you ready?” and ...

I love dogs. I remember being a kid and begging my mom and dad for one and having to wait ...

Having officiated at many weddings over the years, I sometimes joked to my friends that I was “always the rabbi, ...

Shelly Weiss, an iconic self-defined queer, Jewish, genderfluid lifelong political activist and founder of OUTmedia, is the subject of this ...

One of the great disappointments of this summer has been finding out, with the publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set ...

Oliver Sacks is one of the most respected scientists today. The author of many best-selling books on the brain, he ...

Given the rise of today’s growing youth-led LGBTQ movements, there seems to be a divide between where we have been ...

There are lots of versions of this story, and while it would be just perfect if it were true, its ...