Reflections

Selected Jewish Reflections on Culture

• Dark Wisdom: A Jewish Comment on the Conclusion of Breaking Bad

• Found: A Jewish Reflection on Lost

• Dynamic Connections: The Theology of the Runaway Bunny

• Legacy and Family: A Hadran for Harry Potter

Jewish Reflections on Everything Else

• Restoring the Arc (of A Love Affair)

• Expectations, Despair, and Amazement

• Eternity Can Wait 

• What is it about Bedtime?

• Not Up in the Air 

• Jewish Meaning and American History: A Torah-True People

• The Eyes Have It 

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

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

• Spiritual Authority in a Participatory Congregation

• An Old Rabbi

• On Being a Digital Rabbi
• Messengers of Love: Rabbis and Jews-by-Choice in Interfaith Relationships

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)