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Shavuot: Are We Celebrating the Torah Being Given or Received?

by Jodi S. Rosenfeld, Ritualwell Intern In just a few days, we will celebrate the holy day of Shavuot, a festival that includes the...

Counting in the Wilderness

by Rabbi Lauren Tuchman We soon begin the fourth book of the Torah, Sefer Bamidbar. In Hebrew, bamidbar means “wilderness” or “desert.”...

Yoga as a Pathway Into a Jewish Practice

By Rabbi Jodie Siff Each week I have the opportunity to teach yoga with our youngest community members, ages 2 through 5, and our most...

Shmitah for our Souls

By Rabbi Kami Knapp Schechter It’s ok if you find yourself exhausted these days. I feel it too. Why are we so exhausted? Perhaps it feels...

Channeling the Voice of the Earth into Prayer

By Rabbi Nathan Martin I recently went to Washington, DC, and marched with 300 other clergy to the White House to collectively raise our...

Seeking the Divine Face

By Rabbi Lauren Tuchman I invite us to pause and feel into that which we are truly feeling, not wishing it away but allowing for it to...

Lessons from my 13-year-old son at his pandemic bar mitzvah

By Rabbi Haviva Ner-David This pandemic is stretching us all in so many ways we had not imagined, and one of them is that it is breaking...

Between Grief and Hope

By Rabbi Kami Knapp What a blessing to be able to pick up our sacred texts and find words that encapsulate what we struggle to express...

A Rainbow in the Storm: Rediscovering our Humanity in the Face of COVID-19

By Rabbi Haviva Ner-David If we can recognize one another’s humanity, heal our own sacred inner wounds ... that is when the world will be...