August 9, 2017

Stepping Outside “Story”

“It had not occurred to me that anyone in his family could actually make something. All I had heard about them was how poor they were. […]
July 18, 2017

Renewal – the Trick of the Snake

The snake has a bad reputation. It’s often put in the same boat with villains, lending to devious descriptions such as “snake in the grass” and […]
July 14, 2017

A Modern Day Hero

One of my heroes is my nephew, Will, who just graduated university with a degree in Cultural Geography. When Will was a teenager in High School […]
May 7, 2017

Power – A New Definition

Words are tricky. We tend to think common words carry the same meaning for everyone; that the word itself IS the meaning, rather than a vehicle […]
May 2, 2017

A Little Drop of Oil

(An Open Letter of Thanks to the Egalitarian Minyan of Frankfurt-am-Main and the Larger Jewish Community in Germany) What do you do when your world is […]
March 24, 2017

With a Little Reflection, a Change of Heart

This blog was originally published by Limmud On One Leg March 23, 2017. It is a commentary on Torah portion Vayakhel-Pekudei. Vayakhel-Pekudei recounts the actual building […]
October 20, 2016

Finding the Good

The Western medical lens focuses on pain, viruses, and germs, which it sees as “bad”, and then focuses on their elimination. The same approach is employed […]
October 20, 2016

The Practical Side to Dreaming: Five Answers to “Why Dream?”

Say “dreaming” and people often think of the esoteric, something abstract, “woo-woo”, and “out-there”. In fact, dreaming is extremely tangible, practical, and right-now. If you want […]
September 1, 2016

Putting Some Kick in It: Three Tips for Spicing up Your Dreaming Practice

How’s your dreaming practice these days? If you’re like me, from time to time dreams get pushed to the back burner. We go through phases when […]