What is the most important day in a person’s life?
01/07/2018 09:26:07 AM
What is the most important day in a person’s life? The day she is born? The day he graduates? Gets her first job? Falls in love with his future spouse? What is the most important day in a person’s life?
I’d like to argue that the most important day in a person’s life is a day that, by its nature, is sometimes only recognized in retrospect. It is the day on which he or she summons the will to not break.
There are a lot...Read more...
We're in this together: thoughts about this extraordinary week
11/14/2016 11:45:22 AM
By Rav Yosef Kanefsky
I’ve never been particularly good at threading a needle, in the actual physical sense. I’m not sure how much better I am at it in the figurative sense, but I am obligated this morning to try my best. To offer words and ideas, that we ALL find meaningful, applicable and true; Thoughts that comfort and encourage all of us who are in need of comfort and encouragement; and thoughts that challenge each and every...Read more...
Orlando, God and Iftar
06/16/2016 12:13:20 PM
Dearest friends,
Although the timing was obviously not planned, sharing Iftar with our friends at the Islamic center just two days after the massacre in Orlando was enormously poignant.
The attack in Orlando blended two of the most intense and emotional issues within our society. One, is the visceral hatred of gay and lesbian people that still bubbles in too many quarters. To me, it is clearer than ever that none of us...Read more...
