In the last few days I have been asked multiple times, ‘What are you doing for New Year’s Eve?’ And the sad answer is probably not much. The perpetual foghorn…
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(adapted from my book, Tingling tastes.) Turkey הוֹדוּ לְתַרְנְגוֹל, הוֹדוּ! הַכּוּ, עַל חָזֶה הַכּוּ! הִתְוַדּוּ, כִּי אֲכַלְתֶּם לֹבֶן בְּשָׂרוֹ, הִתְוַדּוּ! Dripping giblets of the gobbler, And afterwards some…
For many rabbis, the day after Yom Kippur brings a sense of relief. The sermons we wrote have been delivered, they either resonated or they didn’t, and now they are…
(adapted from my book, The Humanist Prayer Omnibus.) I fast on Yom Kippur. Fasting is difficult. Although the long-term health effects of fasting for one day are virtually non-existent, one…
It is so hard to believe that next week the fall season will officially begin. On the eve of September, we look forward with apprehension to a disruptive fall season….
We are doing a lot of counting these days. We count the sick and we count the dead. We count the unemployment numbers and the days that have blurred together…
We have been in lock-down for seven weeks. Seven weeks of not hugging friends. Seven weeks of not celebrating births, of not mourning deaths. Seven weeks of unstructured time. Days…
‘The sun shone, the acacia was in bloom, and the slaughterer slaughtered’ Haim Nachman Bialik, The City of Death It is spring outside, the beautiful dogwood tree outside my window…
Purim, the holiday of hilarity is coming up in a week and a half. One of the ideas that Purim celebrates is the idea of turning things upside down, of…
Last Shabbat we heard a wonderful talk by a member on rational spirituality. The only complaint that I heard was that it was too short! We humanists feel strongly that…