Our Voices

Lately, perhaps because of the beginning of the year, and perhaps because of this new chapter in my life, I’ve been thinking a lot about beginnings. How abrupt they feel, and yet, before you know it, they seem like a smooth dot in the metronome of life—an inevitability in a stream that carries you...Read more...

Yizkor 5786 | 2025

A cab driver told this story to a rabbi. At 2:30 in the morning the cab driver was sent to a building to pick up a passenger. When he arrived, the building was dark, except for a single light in a ground floor window. 

Many drivers would just honk, wait a minute, and drive away....Read more...

Kol Nidrei 5786 | 2025

Our world is fraught with big issues and big questions. We’re being asked repeatedly to take a stand, side with this group or that, accept wholeheartedly one message, one way or another. And the issues are big—it’s not just where do we stand on...Read more...

Erev Rosh Hashanah 5876 | 2025

I would like to invite you to join me on a ride through Jewish history. It’s a wonderful story, one that just keeps going up and up: The Israelites finally succeeded in entering the Promised Land. We were militarily successful, unified under one...Read more...

Tu B'Av, often described as the Jewish holiday of love, is a lesser known but deeply meaningful celebration similar to Valentine's Day. Falling in the height of summer, just after Tisha B'Av, it marks a spiritual and emotional turning point from grief to hope and from destruction to renewal. Associated with...Read more...