Reflections

Reflections on Life, Being a Rabbi, Culture, Israel, Conservative/Masorti Judaism, and LGBT Inclusion

On Life

• Eternity Can Wait 

• What is it about Bedtime?

• Not Up in the Air 

• Jewish Meaning and American HistoryA Torah-True People

• The Eyes Have It 

• Jewish Elasticity and Values

• What does it mean?

• The Atheon: The First Temple for the Worship of Science

• Where Truth Awaits

• My God Doesn't Take

• Towards a Hopeful Judaism (originally published in the NY Jewish Week)

• A Place in Shul 

• In Defense of Jingle Bells (originally published in the Boston Jewish Advocate)

• God, Sin, and Return

• Finding Our Voice

On Being a Rabbi

• Halachic Virtuosity

• On the 10^th Anniversary of my Rabbinic Ordination 

• Being a Sacred Vessel in Moments of Tension

• Upon Being Installed as Rabbi of Congregation Netivot Shalom

• A Prayer for Health 

• Spiritual Authority in a Participatory Congregation

• One Rabbi's Reflection

• What I have learned thus far (jewels of elul, 5766:Day 1)

• An Old Rabbi

• On Being a Digital Rabbi

Jewish Reflections on Culture

• Found: A Jewish Reflection on Lost

• Dynamic Connections: The Theology of the Runaway Bunny

• The Passion of the Christ

• A Hadran for Harry Potter

Israel

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  My letter to ASUC President Landgraf: "It is possible to be pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian" (April 18, 2-13)
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  • Letter to J Weekly in response to "Peter Beinart waves the Zionist flag in JCCSF talk" (April 20, 2012)


Reclaiming Zionism

• Aromatics: The Jerusalem Syndrome

• Zionism Also needs to Come from Left - Right? (J Weekly, Nov. 2010), & Part II

• Letter to J Weekly: "Pluralism is Real" - Aug. 2010

• Thoughts While Surrounded by Green

• The Ongoing Destruction of Jerusalem  (July 17, 2010)

• Our Family Needs Us

• Dear Chancellor Birgeneau and President Yudof

• The Narrowing of the Israeli Mindset (jweekly)

• Reflections from the Masorti Leadership Israel Mission 2010

• 60Bloggers: Choosing Hope

• Husbands, Brothers and Sons

• Yearning for Home

• It's About Family

• The Absence of Jerusalem

• The INS Cherev

• Zionism as Revolution

On Divestment (letter to DailyCal)

Conservative/Masorti Judaism

• Attending to the Burial of Krovei Yisrael

• A Reflection on Conservative/Masorti Halacha

• Conservative Judaism and Denominationalism

• The Revelation of an Embrace: A Vision of Conservative Judaism

• A Reflection on Conservative Jewish Halacha

• Women on the Beit Din

• Jewish Elasticity and Values

• CJ: A Reflection (the Forward)

• A Critique of Wissenschaft

The Choice to Include

Where Truth Awaits

Brit Milah: Entering the Covenant

Safe Jewish Homes (Domestic Violence)

LGBTQ Inclusion:

Marriage Ruling is About Universal Human Dignity
A Prayer for Sacred Dignity

Bavel and the Loss of Young Lives

Gay and Lesbian Burial: A Teshuva

The Necessity of the Whole

Troubling Tradition