During the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in 2010, my husband Rabbi Allen Maller, and I lived for two months at the Progressive Jewish congregation Beit Warzava in Warsaw. He was conducting services for the High Holidays and I volunteered to sing in the choir. One morning, I woke early and walked out […]
Parshat Vayera
A fence for wisdom is silence. Avot 3:17 October 30th, 2015/17 Cheshvan 5776 – The Jewish people are known for being good talkers. We argue, we ask questions, we find something in the world that need fixing and we kvetch about it and talk about it until something is done. But our tradition also teaches us […]
Rosh Hashanah Sermon, 5776
Seeing the world through the eyes of others can open up an entirely new way of understanding not only different viewpoints, but can also deeply open up our own inner conversations and choices. As is often repeated this time of year, Rosh Hashanah and the Days of Awe are times when we are reminded of […]
Vayelech; September 18th, 2015/5 Tishrei 5776
One of my teachers loves to share a funny and profound story, which I will tell as I remember it. In the 1970’s, she and some other female rabbis noticed a lack of meaningful rituals for baby naming for girls. As scholars and feminists, they wanted to create something that was not simply a “female […]
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