The high holy day season culminates with Simchat Torah, when we read the final verses of the Torah and immediately start our Torah reading cycle anew. It is – to be clear – my favorite Jewish holiday. I love Simchat Torah. After all of the heaviness of this season, all...

Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur are so meaningful. They are at the heart of the Jewish experience and have been for generations: the liturgy, the music, the call of the shofar, the reflection and introspection we take part in as a community, the solemnity of Yizkor, the grandeur of it...

Joni Mitchell famously sang, ‘they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.’ We at KI didn’t pave paradise, but we did put down a new parking lot in these last few days. Is the rabbi about to make a new parking lot have some kind of Jewish meaning? Is...