Sitemap - 2025 - In This Moment: A Rabbi's Notebook
Is It OK to Bring Children into this Broken World?
Photos and Headlines from a Historic Weekend
On Borrowed Time: Me, My Dog, and America
"No Kings" misses the point. Trump doesn't think he's king - he thinks he's God.
Chapter 1: A Young Rabbi: Are Exuberance and Wisdom the Product of One’s Age?
Chapter 2: Gentleman’s Agreement: How I Learned to Afflict the Comfortable and Comfort the Afflicted
Chapter 3: The Santa Suit: Do the Clothes Make the Rabbi?
Chapter 5: Saturday Morning Fever: Touching Souls in a Germophobic Age
Chapter 6: Mentioning the Unmentionable: Smashing Taboos and Sacred Cows
Chapter 7: Dancing Sheva: Flowing with the Rhythms of Sacred Time
Chapter 8: Superrabbi, the Flawed Model: Taking Myself off the Pedestal
Chapter 9: Shedding the Baggage: Baring My Soul Before God
Chapter 10: Fathers and Sons: The Power of Parental Presence
Chapter 11: The Dangling Knife: The Parent as Sculptor, Mentor, and Shield
Chapter 12: Hugging, Blessing, Letting Go: With Every Embrace There Must Be a Release
Chapter 14: My Brother’s Keeper: On Disability and Destiny
Chapter 15: The Peter Panning of America: Can the Past Remain Ever-Present?
Chapter 16: Living on the Back Pages: Holiness Lies in the Sacred Pulse of Daily Life
Chapter 17: The Forbidden Oreo: We Are What We Eat
Chapter 18: The Invisible Fence: Setting Behavioral Boundaries
Chapter 19: The Power Grid: Recognizing the Limits and Potential of One’s Power
Chapter 20: Paradise in a Sandbox: Recovering the Pure Faith of a Child
Chapter 21: The Other Side of the Bed: Healer as Patient
Chapter 23: Goodness and Mercy: My Sudden Realization of Being “the Rabbi”
Chapter 24: Over and Out: The Ultimate Test of Trust
Chapter 25: The Vale of Tears: A Condolence Call to a Place of Unspeakable Suffering
Chapter 26: The Towers: Having the Chutzpah to Reach for the Sky
Chapter 27: The Yarmulke Bin: An Unassuming Beanie Became a Souvenir from Sinai
Chapter 28: Bar Mitzvah Nation: “They Like Us! They Really Like Us.”
Chapter 29: My Father’s Huppah: A Catholic Tevye and the Brave New World of Assimilation
Chapter 30: Jews of the Jungle: Lessons from the Cruel and Supremely Tranquil Savannah
Chapter 31: The Wall and the Mall: Where Is God Truly Found? What Makes a Place “Holy”?
Chapter 32: Where Spring Forever Dwells: Discovering That the Promised Land Is Right Here
Chapter 33: Kosher Pigs: Hypocrisy Can Be a Good Thing
Chapter 34: Crisis: My Greatest Test of Faith
Chapter 35: Championing Civility: It’s Impossible to Avoid Gossip but Essential to Try
Chapter 36: “Do You Think I’m Evil?”: The Stain of Hatred on the Human Soul
Chapter 37: Piercing the Heavens: The Purest Form of Prayer
Chapter 39: Going, Going Gone: Overcoming Tribal Loyalties for the Voice of the Yankees
Chapter 40: Should Jews Turn the Other Cheek? Looking Evil in the Eye
Chapter 41: Getting from “I” to “Wii”: Overcoming Selfishness as a Key to Happiness
Chapter 42: The God of Love: Inheriting a Family Legacy of Unconditional Love
What June 14 will mean for America, as the National Mall becomes Red Square
Friday, the Rabbi Resigned...and Other Profiles in Courage for an Era of Outrage.
The MAGA obsession with the R-word used to be a way to “own the libs.” Now it’s much more dangerous.
The world was very different when we helicoptered out of Saigon 50 years ago. It's better now.
The quintessential survivor has died at 100. But her words will live forever - through us.
Harvard's "Shot Heard Round the World"
"Maybe Jesus will save her from those Buddhists!"
The “cancer within the presidency” - and within me
This Passover, Kosher Pig's On the Menu
MAGA has E.D.S (Empathy Derangement Syndrome). Time to Flood the Zone with Empathy.
Of Medicine, Miracles and Media
Standing up to Jewish hate means standing up to all hate
A March Mashup of Holy Days: Ramadan, Lent and...Purim?
What Moral Clarity Is - And Isn't
Thank you, NYT, for calling a lie a lie.
The Front Pages are the Front Lines and the American Press is Flailing. But not the Brits.
Dear hockey fans, please don’t boo the Canadian anthem
What Does “Thou Shalt Not Kill” Really Mean? Presidential Bible Lesson #2
From Greenland to Gaza to the Gulf - Teaching Trump About "Thou Shalt Not Covet"
The Super Bowl Catch that Wasn't
My Annual Super Bowl Prediction (Based on Biblical and Other Sources)
Liberation of Auschwitz, 80 Years On: From Sorrow to Song
Musk doubled down on his hateful gesture - the ADL shouldn’t validate it.
The Hebrew word for future teaches us how to face it
The one who "smelt" it, dealt it
Saving Torah scrolls from flaming synagogues: "A piece of history held in trembling hands."