Torah

Just Do It: A High Holy Day Call to Action

The season of teshuvah is for thinking and feeling, but mainly as springboards for action

How Tech Innovation Both Defines and Challenges Our Identity

Back in August, when I last posted for this blog, I was on my way to visit the URJ Six ...

Judaism in a Secular Age – Just What God Wanted!

Six weeks from now when the world and the Jewish People experience another Rosh Hashanah, we will stand before God ...

Do you love me, or not?

Towards the beginning of the Tractate Berachot  (27b-28a) in the Talmud, there is a story about Rabban Gamaliel (the second ...

Let’s Disrupt Income Inequality

Vancouver, Canada can be an expensive Paradise.Our family is lucky to live in a diverse neighborhood, with cottages that sell ...

Daughters of Change

This week’s Torah portion (Parshat Pinhas) is one of the two in which Serach, the daughter of Asher, the son ...

How to Fall on Your Face: The Spiritual Art of Leadership

This post is for you if you ever felt small after receiving critique or challenge, or that a leadership burden is too heavy, or ...

The Last Torah Blog

It’s time that the religious blog, if not all blogs, to go the way of the 8-track tape, and make ...

The Visibility Engine

Yesterday I read two articles, one called On the Invisibility of Middle-Aged Women, and the second called, Mom’s Invisible Hand:What ...

What You Decide Matters

Last week, citizens of the UK voted to leave the European Union. Brexit has been all over the news. Maybe ...