As you read this, I am on my way to Atlanta with KI teens. We will spend this weekend exploring the American south as we study the history of the civil rights movement. We will not only learn about Rosa Parks and the Rev Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we...

This week, I found myself pausing, just for a moment, before walking into our building. To walk through a doorway is an act of trust. After the act of antisemitism at Temple Israel in Michigan last week, I felt like pausing, remembering that a man drove into their building with...

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It feels like we are living in a whirlwind. War rages half a world away. The climate fluctuates once and again. The economy is hardly stable. ICE wreaks havoc in cities across our nation. Hate rears its head in the form of antisemitism, racism, transphobia, and xenophobia. There is bullying...

Once again, missiles are falling on Israeli homes. Once again, our heart is in the east. And – once again – we feel competing emotions deep within us.  Since October 7, 2023, I have written once again about cognitive dissonance, the idea that multiple things can be true at the...