(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…
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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…
On these darkest of days of the year our ancestors around the world sought to push away the gloom with holidays of light. This year it seems we need to…
Why I love City Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism I love City Congregation because I am surrounded by a community of people who share my values. ‘Love your neighbor as yourself that is the entire Torah’. I…
Many years ago I wrote a poem that begins: “I sing when the day comes / For at night there is only anguish.” This poem comes to mind this year…