Friday March 14, 2025/14 Adar 5785/Purim Parashat Ki Tisa Hevre/Friends, As Shabbat arrives, the conclusion to the week of shiva for...

Friday March 8, 2025/7 Adar 5785/Shabbat Zachor Parashat Tetzave Hevre/Friends, Yesterday Andi and I had the sweetest pleasure of...

Friday February 28, 2025/30 Sh'vat 5785/Rosh Chodesh Adar Parashat Terumah Friends/Hevre,   Of the many different names for God imagined...

Friday February 14, 2025/16 Sh'vat 5785 Parashat Yitro   Friends/Hevre,   Driving back to New York from Montreal this past Tuesday I did...

Friday February 7, 2025/9 Sh'vat 5785 Parashat B'Shalach/Shabbat Shirah Friends/Hevre,   It’s a tense moment when this week’s portion,...

Friday January 31, 2025/2 Sh'vat 5785 Parashat Bo Friends/Hevre,   Yesterday we welcomed the new month of Sh'vat during which we'll mark...

Friday January 24, 2025/24 Tevet 5785 Parashat Vaera Friends/Hevre,   Emily Damari. Romi Gonen. Doron Steinbrecher. Names seared into our...

Friday January 17, 2025/17 Tevet 5785 Parashat Shemot Friends/Hevre,   Could it really be happening? Could the hostages finally be coming...

Friday January 10, 2025/10 Tevet 5785 Parashat Vayechi Hevre/Friends, In this week’s final portion of the Book of Genesis, as Jacob nears...

Friday December 27, 2024/26 Kislev 5785 Parashat Miketz/Shabbat Hanukkah Hevre/Friends,   On the first night of Hanukkah about 75...

Friday December 20, 2024/19 Kislev 5785 Parashat Vayeshev וַיֹּ֕אמֶר-- אֶת־אַחַ֖י אָנֹכִ֣י מְבַקֵּ֑שׁ  [J oseph] answered, I am looking...

Friday December 13, 2024/12 Kislev 5785 Parashat Vayetze Hevre/Friends, This time next week Andi and I will be back in the Laurentians...

Friday December 6, 2024/5 Kislev 5785 Parashat Vayetze Hevre/Friends, When people ask about my experience growing up in the Orthodox...

Friday November 22, 2024/21 H eshvan 5785 Parashat Chaye Sarah Hevre/Friends, The most dramatic story in parashat Chaye Sarah is the one...

It sounds so simple: be grateful for all we have. And yet, there are times when it’s just really hard to feel it.

Yesterday over coffee after a grueling exercise class, I got a loving but firm lecture from my daughter (when did those tables turn?).

Friday November 8, 2024/7 H eshvan 5785 Parashat Lech Lecha Hevre/Friends, In his 2005 essay on holding together the tensions of...

It’s 4:35 in the morning and I’m lying awake waiting to die.  Not that there’s anything wrong with me. Other than the fact I’m convinced...

Friday November 1, 2024/Rosh Chodesh H eshvan Parashat Noa h Hevre/Friends, This past Wednesday in my Contemporary Halakhah (Jewish Law)...

My mother is 86 years old. She was raised in a non-observant, secular Jewish home just a few blocks from here. As a young adult, she felt...

Here’s the good news: I’m not going to preach to you today. Here’s the bad news: I’m still going to deliver a sermon. What I’m actually...

When people ask about my experience growing up in the Orthodox community and making my way to the Conservative rabbinate, I often hear...

How many times have you been out to dinner with friends and someone looks at you and your spouse or your partner and asks: “ So, how did...

V’asu li mikdash v’shakhanti betokham. Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary, pure and holy, tried and true. And with thanksgiving, I’ll be...