Tears of Growth: Portals into a Middle Eastern Tomorrow
June 12, 2024
The work ahead of us is an impossible puzzle and hero’s journey not for the faint-hearted.
Rabbi Lori Shapiro
Coachella, Judy Blume and Hitbodedut
May 24, 2023
This Shavuot, we can seek our revelation by talking to God.
Cover Story: We Can’t Zoom Sukkot
October 5, 2022
Through years of reclaiming my own Jewish identity, more than any other ritual, the sukkah has become the highest point of Jewish symbols and rituals in my life.
Purim UnMasked
March 10, 2022
As each of us discerns exactly when and where we will UnMask, an urgent question arises alongside the Purim reading of the Megillat Esther: How does the Great UnMasking transform into the Great Jewish Reveal?
How Open Temple Remained Open
November 4, 2021
As the founder and leader of Open Temple, I made a decision from which, since the start of the pandemic, we have not backed down: we will remain Open.
Colin Powell and His Yiddish Heart
October 19, 2021
As the eulogies and features of his life played endlessly this week, there is one story that rises above all others in its simple wisdom, like a chassidic proverb.
What Kol Nidre Was Like in a Cemetery
September 17, 2021
Under a rising half-moon, 120 souls sat on tapestries laid out for them in between headstones, the marble stones and the names etched into them a visible reminder of where all of this ostensibly leads.
Why We Will Do Kol Nidre in a Cemetery this Year
September 10, 2021
This year, Yom Kippur, an ancient technology that leads us through an annual near-death experience, must be renewed.
This Rosh Hashanah, Let Us Renew Our Breath
September 2, 2021
With its assault on life’s breath, COVID bears elements of a spiritual, as well as physical, ailment. We have lost touch with our communities, our families and most essentially, our breath.
The Sukkot in Our Midst
October 1, 2020
The sukkahs in our midst are a visible reminder of the formerly invisible homeless.
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