Bending Time

BLOG | November 7, 2011

Justice on My Plate, By Dasi Fruchter

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It left a sour taste in my mouth to know that my food could be technically kosher but have unjust origins. I wanted another dimension for my brakhah. [more]

BLOG | November 1, 2011

Feast and Famine

by Jordan Namerow

High Holidays, Sukkot, Thanksgiving … food is at the heart of our collective experience now. But for some, insecurity is also a given. [more]

BLOG | October 27, 2011

Rituals as Varied as Our Lives

by Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, Ph.D.

You’ve shared a multitude of ideas that can help us celebrate joys, heal sorrows and wash away difficulties. [more]

BLOG | October 11, 2011

Ushpizin: Come on In

by Lori Lefkovitz, Ph.D.

Ushpizin connects us to all our ancestors, real and imagined... [more]

BLOG | October 6, 2011

My Yearly Adventure in Magical Thinking

by Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, Ph.D.

Just before Yom Kippur, I observe the ritual of kapparot. [more]

BLOG | September 27, 2011

Check, Please! By JT Waldman

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Conducting a Chesbon Ha-Nefesh [more]

BLOG | September 15, 2011

The Names We Carry

by Rabbi Roni Handler

Somehow, hearing a list of individuals who’ve been lost brings us together. [more]

BLOG | September 7, 2011

Best Laid Plans

by Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, Ph.D.

What I learned from a wrong turn on the road to the perfect ritual. [more]

BLOG | August 11, 2011

Bending Time

by Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg Krainin, Ph.D.

I just spent five days on an isolated lake in the Adirondacks with my husband, a canoe and a case of red wine. We stayed in a blinged-out yurt—with water, electricity, a comfy bed and a deck you could sit on forever. [more]