October 2016
Sukkot and Simchat Torah: Resources and Reflections
This year we’ve rounded up a menu of our past Sukkot and Simchat Torah posts for you to explore. Below you’ll find resource guides, rabbinical ...
Wind and Rain, Resilience and Abundance
Earlier this week in the Pacific Northwest we waited for a storm that wasn’t.A big storm of heavy rain and ...
Living With Death
Death is a problem. It is death that seems to suck the meaning out of life. If it is all ...
Reflections on Liturgy of the High Holy Days
We spent the whole morning of prayers during the High Holidays on our pleas for forgiveness from God, and our ...
7 Global Jews To Enrich Your Sukkot Celebration
At Sukkot the custom of Ushpizin, offers us a chance, to be as welcoming and as inclusive as we would ...
Coming Out for my Transgender Daughter
There it sat and it had sat for a very long time. We felt exhausted, vulnerable, and full of anxiety. ...
Yom Kippur Is Important. The Day After Is Even More So.
We sat in synagogue most, if not all, of the day. We didn’t eat. We thought about the ways we missed ...
Seven Sukkot Themes To Spice Up Your Sukkah
Sukkot is almost here! It’s our week to cram friends and family into the sukkah, whether for short services and ...
Perhaps the Power is in Our Hands
Who in this day and age is free of worry? Anxiety is at it all time high in this country.And, ...
Birthday Wishes
Happy birthday world Hayom Harat Olam Congratulations On making it another year, On faking it another year Like they earned ...