It’s hard not to feel despair when the weather drops 30-40 degrees overnight and we are confronted by a continuous stream of depressing news at home and abroad. Pick your special interest: public health, climate, gun control, antisemitism, Israel-Palestine… To say there’s a lot to be sad and anxious about seems beyond cliché at this Read More
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Community Chanukah Message 5782
Juggling Hanukkah and the American winter holidays always seems to me like the perfectreflection of the challenge of being Jewish in America: walking in two worlds, not totally in syncwith everything around me. This year, with Hanukkah coming on the heels of AmericanThanksgiving and still in this time of Covid reality and persistent questions about Read More
Chanukah – 8 Days for Climate Change
Chanukah begins tonight at sundown. Many take this time to celebrate possibilities – that a small army can defeat a larger one and that right will overcome might. But it is also a time for Jews to imagine a brighter world brought about through energy conservation. As we live through and work to halt climate Read More