This week we lost Rabbi Arthur Waskow, the great rabbi, author, and activist for progressive causes. I wanted to share a little bit about him with you, as well as some of his insights into this week’s Torah portion.

I’m not what you’d call a morning person. I don’t normally jump out of bed in the morning, and especially not on a Monday. But this week was an exception.

Shabbat Sukkot Adapted from a story by Debra Gordon Zaslow Once, long ago, there was a young couple who were truly in love. They decided to be married in the autumn under the canopy of the sukkah in the presence of their friends and relatives. When the time came, they invited the ushpizin , the spirits of the ancestors who are traditionally invited into the sukkah during the holiday. They said their vows with the full moon peeking through the s’chach  that lined the sukkah ro

It is the season of t’shuvah. As you probably know, t’shuvah, often translated as “repentance,” literally means “return,”

This week’s Torah portion, Ki Teitzei, has the distinction of being the parashah with the most mitzvot in it – 74 laws, in fact.

“You are what you eat.” Some say a French politician and author named Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin coined a version of the phrase in 1826,

Graham Nash was not, as far as I know, inspired by the Book of Deuteronomy when he wrote this song in 1968. So we’ll consider it just a happ

The walls are crumbling before our very eyes. Walls of denial, walls of defensiveness, walls of deception. The walls are crumbling and we can see – we must see – what is behind them: starvation, suffering, death.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness