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When it comes to religion, I'm a pretty extreme non-literalist. I pretty much take nothing in our sacred texts literally. I certainly do...

I came across an interesting article in the New York Times last week. It was about the importance of Awe . If you've heard me speak more...

A quick thought about many of the opinions I've been seeing in regards to the riots going on in Baltimore.  I seem to be seeing two majo...

I subscribe the Religion Dispatches e-letter/blog. It's often got some interesting material in it, even if it often leans so far to the...

This past Shabbat, our member Irma Polster gave a beautiful sermon about Mental Illness and the Jewish community . It was an important start...

[I'm currently at the annual CCAR (Reform Rabbis) conference in Philadelphia. I was asked to write a guest blog for the CCAR's blog...

We've all sat in this kind of a seder: the leader reads a passage, with a lot or very little enthusiasm, and then the rest of the table ...