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Celebrate, Eat, Hanukkah, Hanukkah Food, Holiday Food
Noshing Through LatkeFest
In honor of Hanukkah beginning earlier this week, and an all-around appreciation for starch and fried things, Manhattan-based event planning company ...
Hineni, Here I am…
“Accompaniment Urgently Needed for Asylum Court Case.” Volunteers are needed on June 6th.
Step Up to the Mic!
I believe it’s not an uncommon experience to be at a lecture or gathering where someone steps in front of ...
Celebrate, Eat, Rabbis Without Borders
Fighting Poverty with Faith
It’s four days after Thanksgiving and I am feeling guilty. My family enjoyed a weekend of delicious leftovers from our ...
Israel, Pray, Rabbis Without Borders, Study
Taking The Plunge
It was January 2007, almost exactly six years ago. I was sitting in my office, reviewing a dense corporate document ...
Debating the Term “Concentration Camp”
In my blog posts this week I have written about the Kodachrome slides that Bill Manbo took while imprisoned with ...
Eat, Jewish Recipes, Jewish&, Sephardic Jews
Eating Ashkenazi-Sephardi Style at Sukkot
Sukkot appears to be one holiday in which the Moroccan and Ashkenazic customs and rituals are fairly similar. We both ...
Conversion, Jewish&, Live, Pray
What Do You Call a Questioning Convert? Rabbi.
“Why did you convert?” I have been asked this question many times before, sometimes out of deep interest and sometimes ...
Saved by Leonard Cohen
Some people find Christ in their darkest hour. Others turn to Allah. But if you’re a Jew, young, and in ...
Beliefs & Practices, Jewish History, Live, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Gay History in the Making, I Guess
Today was the day that we’d worked for all these years: finally the doors of the Conservative movement have been ...