Embalm our bodies and photoshop our souls
Mordechai and Esther wrote the Megillah at the end of the Purim story to commemorate the Jewish victory over Haman and the saving of the Jewish people, but they wrote it with a particular audience in...
View ArticleBinging and excess in the megillah; a recipe for loss and regret
The world we step into when we open our Megillah scroll is a world of excess. Expensively dyed hangings are draped on the walls, marbled pillars line the halls, and the glint of silver and gold shines...
View ArticleWhen beauty is pain
At one of the costumed celebrations of the last few weeks I was watching a young girl try to do an art project dressed up like a princess. She wore a cumbersome dress with very long sleeves and a metal...
View ArticleSwastikas on the Soles of our Shoes
In elementary school we had a ritual To write the name “HITLER” on the soles of our shoes. So that all day long, we could rub him out of history, For we knew he lingered. We repeated the...
View ArticleDo the Jews of the World Care?
In corners of the internet, some people have expressed the feeling, that the world Jewry is ignoring the plight of the Jews of Israel. That we are not engaging with the strife of terrorism and the fear...
View ArticleWhen Your Brother Becomes a Soldier
Every year during Yom Hazikaron/Yom Haatzmaut I attempt to reflect on the meanings of the day. Coming out of Yom Hashoah, the pain and enormity of our losses both personal and national linger with me....
View ArticleA change of heart
It took an unwanted cardiac exam to make me realize that I needed to be kind to myself, to forgive myself, and to reach out to God with this new repentance
View ArticleName after name
The time my father and I went to Yad Vashem to research our extraordinary family, heirs to 400 years in Prague - until they were murdered in Auschwitz
View ArticleThis time, it’s different
Jewish history can feel repetitive: The same devastating story of violence for generations, in a world with no home for the Jews. Israel changed that
View ArticleFrom November 9 to October 7: My inheritance
Will my future grandchildren remember the day of terror the way I remember Kristallnacht?
View Article
