Sacred Cemetery Earth

President Trump deserves credit for beginning his recent address to Congress by affirming that America is “united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms,” specifically condemning bomb threats against Jewish school and JCCs, vandalism in Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis and Philadelphia, and the murder of an Indian immigrant in a bar in… Read more »

On Friday the Rabbi Wore a Hijab 

I wear some unusual garments as a rabbi: the leather straps of Tefillin during weekday prayer services a fringed shawl-like Tallit, often tied as a cape, as I run up and down flights of stairs on Shabbat a white Kittel and Keds on Yom Kippur dreidle leggings on Chanukkah; a fruit dress on Tu B’Shevat;… Read more »