Blackboards in Pittsburgh
For two weeks before Shabbat Chanukah, four black boards with a question at the top and multi-colored chalk in the chalk trays were...
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A New Voice for Ancient Yearni...
As wildfires burned in California, hundreds of missiles rained down on Israel from Gaza. Fire on the ground and fire from the air,...
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At Neilah, the closing service at the end of Yom Kippur, we imagine ourselves standing at the gates of heaven, urgently pleading for...
read moreModern Voice, Ancient Yearning
Contemporary liturgy is a response to the call of the siddur and the call of our hearts. The siddur carries the weight of history,...
read moreA Prayer of Gratitude from URJ...
Take a moment to be fully grateful for just one thing in your life. That little pause may be enough to change your outlook and your...
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The morning after the Las Vegas Massacre, several identical posts appeared on Facebook, many from rabbis, declaring that ‘Prayer is...
read moreA New Amen
The Talmud asks, what is the meaning of the word ‘amen’? Rabbi Ḥanina responds: “It is an acronym of the words: “God, faithful...
read moreHeroic Prayer: Climbing out of...
“Why pray? And what is prayer, to you?” Rabbi Don Goor asked me as I sat in front of the crowd at HUC-JIR in Jerusalem last week. It...
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