This week marks the end of President Trump’s first 100 days, the traditional time-unit for measuring a new leader’s success out of the starting gate. No matter how history evaluates this new President’s beginning, for Liberals, these past three months saw a relentless assault on our deeply-held values. Now, liberals are not taking any of […]
Inclusivity and Exclusivity: Passover, the Jewish Community and the U.S.
Jews around the world will say the following words at the opening of their Passover seder: “Let all who are hungry come and eat; Let all who need come and join in the celebrating of the Passover.” This declaration of radical inclusivity stands in stark contrast to the restrictions as to who could participate in […]
National Jewish Book Award
I am honored to announce that Changing the World from the Inside Out won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice. It is particularly meaningful to me that this is the Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award. As many know, Myra was a life-long Jewish communal lay leader and philanthropist at […]
Be Inspired This MLK Day
In synagogues around the world the following words were read this morning from the Book of Exodus (Exodus, chapter 1), “A new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.” There is a debate in the Talmud (Sota 11a) whether he really didn’t know Joseph, or he just acted like he didn’t know Joseph, […]