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“We’re almost halfway there.” So began a recent public health message that our area is almost halfway down the covid-19 curve. Now is the time, the message urged, to keep doing what we’re doing – maintain protections, check on each other, don’t let our guard down, don’t surrender progress in flattening the curve. Instantly I thought, …
By Rabbi David The display hall at the 2020 AIPAC (America-Israel Public Affairs Committee) policy conference was a wow. A massive convention center, over 700,000 square feet, filled with exhibitions about Israel’s advances in environmental protection, health, social policy, education, information technology and national defense. What other nation, I wondered, could …
Los Angeles-area Rabbi Ed Feinstein tells a famous story about life in Israel after one of its many upheavals. He recounts walking in Jerusalem and seeing the city return to itself. He sees Chabad rabbis at the downtown corner of Ben Yehuda St. and Jaffa St. “doing what Chabadnik’s do everywhere, putting tefillin on every passerby. There …
Like many of us, I’m losing track of time during these weeks on lockdown. My increasingly long hair shows that it’s been …
During our first Corona Week, I wrote about the spirituality of melting down. During our second Corona Week, I wrote about the …
Last week, I wrote about the spirituality of melting down – that so much about our first responses to the corona crisis, and what’s been familiar about …
These are times that try our souls. Nobody needs me to say so. This truth is becoming even more glaringly obvious with each …
The Chanukkah we know – the Festival of Lights – comes from the word chanukkah that has two meanings. One is learning or instruction (chinukh). The other …
In the style of a prophetic writing. When I was meager of spirit but full of days The word of Shohama came …
Pantoum for Rabbi Shohama, beginning the new chapter of retirement Angels surrounding, everywhere we go. You taught us to see them. You …
