A Light Unto the Nations: Two-Way Street for Passover 04/14/2022 For me, the key issue is not how a nation was founded, but how it sustains itself, how it treats all of its inhabitants, and how it strives to live up to the ideals enshrined in its sacred myth.
Planting Seeds for the Future: Two-Way Street for Tu B’Shvat 01/18/2022 In the moments when I feel frustrated by a lack of instant gratification, I remember the hero of this Tu Bishvat story: the anonymous carob planter who knew he would never enjoy the fruit of his labor, but decided to plant anyway.
Two-Way Street for Simchat Torah 09/20/2021 There is something beautiful and comforting in the notion that we know the cycle that life will follow and that it will repeat predictably. We are blessed with the Jewish year encompassing this regularity. Simchat Torah symbolically re-enacts the annual turning point between death and rebirth.
Two-Way Street for Yom Kippur | Yom Kippur and Israel 5782 08/26/2021 Join us this Tisha B’av in visualizing, thinking about and creating this new meta-narrative where both our Zionism and our liberalism can flourish, and peace can reign throughout the land.
Two-Way Street for Rosh Hashanah | Facing and Embracing the Other 08/26/2021 Join us this Tisha B’av in visualizing, thinking about and creating this new meta-narrative where both our Zionism and our liberalism can flourish, and peace can reign throughout the land.
Two-Way Street for Tisha B’Av | Not One or The Other but Rather a Third Choice 07/14/2021 Join us this Tisha B’av in visualizing, thinking about and creating this new meta-narrative where both our Zionism and our liberalism can flourish, and peace can reign throughout the land.
Two-Way Street for Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaout | Not If But When 04/12/2021 In many ways, commemorating Yom Hashoah Ve-HaGevurah (Remembrance Day of The Holocaust and Heroism) is entwined deeply with the foundation of the modern State of Israel.
Two-Way Street for Yom HaShoah | Never Again: Not Just a Slogan 04/05/2021 In many ways, commemorating Yom Hashoah Ve-HaGevurah (Remembrance Day of The Holocaust and Heroism) is entwined deeply with the foundation of the modern State of Israel.
Two-Way Street for Passover: Journeying with Fellow Travelers 03/24/2021 Only if we embrace the mixed multitude of the Exodus story and our own time can the ancient dream of a country providing justice to all its citizens be realized.