Jewish community

Rabbi Laura’s Day Off (or: Outreach Happens)

Our 21 year old daughter has invited her parents to The Intention Gathering, a “self-sustaining, all-ages, ethnically diverse superfragilistic-art-dance-creative community.”We have ...

Talking about Rabbis

Yesterday, during preparations for the graduation ceremony for the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, I caught a glimpse of the glow on the ...

Is Relational Judaism Only For Large Jewish Communities?

I recently had the privilege of listening to Professor Ron Wolfson give several talks to my community about his new ...

Rabbis Don’t Belong on Scorecards

“Nevertheless, we followed the advice from every magazine editor who told us that rankings matter: if you want people to ...

Airing The Dirty Laundry and Jewish Communal News

As someone who has written articles about issues impacting the Jewish community for publications like The Huffington Post, The Denver ...

So Now What?

As a synagogue rabbi, I feel as if we have been running a religious marathon for the past month. since. ...