Chanukah 2024/5785

Chanukah 2024/5785

“Reflect, Celebrate, and Connect: A Hybrid Chanukah Experience for Everyone” Chanukah is for everyone—and this year, it feels especially resonant. As we reflect on a year filled with liberation struggles, spiritual seeking, and challenges to justice and...
Shabbat

Shabbat

Shabbat (the Sabbath) is not simply about going to synagogue. It is a 25-hour spiritual, meditative, psychological, and intellectual process which involves a withdrawal from the normal consciousness of domination and control over time and space. On Shabbat, we enter...
10 Commitments (Speech Acts/Divine Utterances)

10 Commitments (Speech Acts/Divine Utterances)

Many of us find the notion of “commandments” oppressive and hierarchical. Yet we know that a community cannot be built on the principle of only doing what feels right at the moment––it requires a sense of responsibility to each other.  Rabbi Michael Lerner and...