Reflections on Becoming Bar Mitzvah
Coming of age. Rites of passage. Somehow, to me this brings to mind images of a boy in a...
Reflections from Israel
Reflections on War
So now we have a cease-fire. Yet even as I watched Olmert and Barak on T.V., announcing our...
Reflections on Tu B’Shvat
I was driving into my community of Karnei Shomron last week and literally had to pull over at the...
Reflections on Yom HaShoah
April 2009 Today is Yom HaShoah- Holocaust Memorial Day. It started last night at sundown when a...
Reflections on Songs in Israel
May 2009 On my way to work today, I heard the song that Israel sang in this year’s Eurovision...
Reflections on Simchat Torah
October 2009 Two weeks ago we celebrated “Sukkot”- our beloved Feast of Tabernacles. But there’s a...
Reflections on the New Moon
November 2009 This past Shabbat I sat in synagogue, listening to the Blessing of the New Month,...
Reflections on Prayers Upon Rising
February 2010 I lay in bed in the morning, trying to decide, through transparent eyelids, whether...
Reflections on Prayers for the State of Israel and Her Armed Forces
April 2010 These past two days have been a roller coaster of emotions. Monday was Israel’s...
Reflections on Ushering in and Bidding Farewell to Shabbat
May 2010 In my home, as in many Jewish homes around the world, Friday afternoon, as Shabbat...