Rabbi Blogs

For many, the winter season can feel difficult: longer nights, and colder weather. Loneliness may set in; a longing for another time beckons us closer. But Hannukah, the Festival of Lights, confronts the impulse to isolate and turn away. Hannukah…

While the Jewish people make up 0.2% of the global population, within that percentage is a diverse, multiheritage, varied group. The jokes about Jewish disagreements abound: Two Jews, three opinions. Another famous one: There is one Jew on an island…

In conversation with a friend from New York this week, he told me, “Rabbi, life is easy, but living is hard.” When I asked him to elaborate, he said, “We are born into this world without a choice. That is…