Opinion

The unthinkable happened at the first gathering on Zoom for the Lappin Teen Fellows on Sunday, Sept. 13. After participating in this fellowship following Y2I last summer, I could not wait to learn from Debbie...

T’shuvah, or repentance, is, at its heart, for me this year, about taking personal risk. That’s our mandate, even during this dangerous time. Perhaps most of all during this time. We use musical rounds to...

Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman As we prepare for the Jewish New Year, I’d like to ask you to STAY HOME FROM SHUL. OK, now that I got your attention, let me explain...

Rabbi David Kudan Have you ever heard of the Slow Food Movement? Slow Food advocates invite us to move us away from fast food, from factory made cuisine, meals made in...

Rabbi David Cohen-Henriquez To say this year has been hard and challenging is an understatement. We have truly been hit with a life-changing, paradox-shifting wave with the Covid-19 pandemic. After being...

Rabbi Richard Perlman As we approach the Yamim Noraim (High Holy Days), our Torah teaches us how to ready ourselves for the New Year. Parashat Ekev, which, in context, means: “If...

The Sacred Opportunity of Disruption Is this the fast that I desire?! A day for men to starve their bodies? Is it bowing the head like a bulrush and lying in sackcloth and ashes? Do...

Rabbi Michael Ragozin What a year it’s been. It seems like ages ago that we visited friends and enjoyed dining out, that children went to school and summer camp, that families...

Rabbi Yossi Lipsker One of my favorite cinema moments of all time is with Vincent Casell in “Oceans Twelve.” He has to get past a room full of crisscrossing laser beam...