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Life After Love: Cher & Jewish Mourning Rituals
In October 2013, when I bought my tickets to see Cher’s Dressed to Kill tour, which would be playing down ...
What is a Community?
A few days ago, I ran across an article asking a rabbi what a person could do instead of going ...
Some Helpful Advice on Starting and Ending a Period of Mourning
Anyone who knows me even a bit also knows that I thrive on social contact and interacting with people. However, ...
Looking Back on Newtown With Sadness, Anger and Love
On Friday, December 14, 2012, I heard the news in the car. Shots were being fired in an elementary school ...
Thank You for Sharing Sam
It was one of those nights. I could not sleep at all. Sadness and worries crowded in. I went to ...
Ghosts, Spirits, and Jewish wanderings in the Afterlife
My colleagues Joshua Ratner and Alana Suskin have offered their perspectives on kids trick or treating, and generally engaging (or ...
Why I Don’t Let My Kids Trick-or-Treat
Below, Rabbi Alana Suskin explains why her family doesn’t trick-or-treat. To hear from another Jewish mom with a different perspective, ...
May All Of Our Hearts Be Moved to Action
A week ago, a woman named Deb took her life in New Jersey. I learned about her death in an ...
Baruch Dayan Emet
Hoshana Rabbah is kind of a weird day – even for the Jewish calendar. It’s not really a holiday – ...
Joy as an Answer to Death
“How do I go on?” I was asked recently at a service following the death of a beautiful woman in ...
The Messianic Concept in Reform Judaism
The Reform Movement's changing conception of the Messiah.
A Minyan of Minyans Across the South
For more than a year, I’ve been working with Dr. Ron Wolfson to plan a ten-day lecture tour to visit communities ...