Yom Kippur 5787 – 2026 A Divided People: Then and Now
Our ancestors chose to become a people who belonged to one another.
Our ancestors chose to become a people who belonged to one another.
Time and again, in extreme circumstances like these, as well as in everyday life, our ancestors held tenaciously to tradition and it helped them find their way in the dark.
Teshuvah is a different GPS, God’s positioning system, helping us to calculate as we move forward.
Mine is not a story about a promise unkept. It is a story about what grows in the actual soil I was given, the only soil there ever was.
Belonging is something we keep searching for, over and over and over again, our whole lives.
These stars can’t change other people’s fear or hatred. But they can change us and root us in our own lives, unwilling to disappear.
But true spiritual engagement requires a transformation: a deep, shared commitment to living Jewish values and performing mitzvot together.
We all have a theory of parenting—and then we have the reality of parenting the children that we actually get.
Will we allow religion to lead us to violence, or will we allow it to lead us towards kindness and community?
Kristen was heartbroken over the loss of something she could never replace, and she was also his mother, and her love for him was so much bigger than her grief over a thing.