June 23, 2018 (10 Tamuz 5778) On Wednesday, in the middle of the day, I was uncharacteristically on the Boston Common. It was a glorious day. Perfect weather. The sunlight...
July 29, 2017 (6 Av 5777) There’s an old joke that has been updated for this era. The world’s top scientists send out a press release stating that the climate...
February 4, 2017 (8 Sh’vat 5777) This summer our Temple Emanuel community went to the JCC to do “shul at the pool.” It was sunny and soulful, relaxing and renewing. ...
January 28, 2017 (Rosh Chodesh Sh’vat 5777) Where is the line between politics and human decency? Between too much hopefulness and becoming hard-hearted? Last Wednesday night I was at Logan...
November 5, 2016—4 Cheshvan 5777 This week, we’ve been nervously watching the television. Worried. Losing sleep. Some of us have even had indigestion. It feels absolutely interminable, like this will...
July 23, 2016—17 Tamuz 5776 Last Shabbat, I was at a bar mitzvah in Berlin. On the top floor of a synagogue that had been destroyed during the Nazi years...