Genesis

Sleep to Dream, Dream to Plan, Plan to Act

This winter vacation, I slept more than I had in recent memory. Heading to Upstate New York with my wife ...

Reconciliation Within the Family and Beyond the Family

The Book of Genesis is nothing if not a story of dysfunctional families.Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Hagar, Sarah ...

Grappling With the Mysteries of Creation

It happens every year like clockwork.I enter the kindergarten where the children are waiting in anticipation. Before I have a ...

Humble Audacity

Commentary on Parshat Noah, Genesis 6:9-11:32After the great flood, all of humanity shared a single language and lived together in ...

Being Imperfect is Spiritual

I was moved recently in speaking with one of my new students in the Religious School hallway looking sad. I ...

They’re Coming to America

For several weeks now, I’ve maintained a careful silence in my 9th grade Jewish Literature classroom about the politics of immigration ...

Love Thy (Next-Door) Neighbor as Thyself

I am a fan of The Twilight Zone, the TV series from the 1960s created by Rod Serling (Jewish!). Each ...

There’s No Such Thing as Closure

There is a relationship in my life that has gnawed at my heartstrings for more than twenty years, and each ...

Five Stages of Soul

Simchat Torah: a day for reading — and connecting — the beginning and end of the Torah.The Torah begins with ...