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What rights do we have to our soul?
Last week, while checking in on the latest articles on the Religion page of the Huffington Post, the following headline caught my eye: Proxy Baptism Seekers Eyed Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel For...
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“I Believe”– A Meditation for Yom Hashoah
Yom Hasho’ah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, begins tomorrow evening at sundown. Many of us will light a yahrzeit candle and pause to remember. And many memorials will include the singing of Ani Ma’amin —...
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When Goodness Transcends Boundaries
The 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising has created renewed interest in the actions of Polish gentiles who assisted Poland’s Jews during the Nazi occupation. Some rescuers hid individual...
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Jews and Tattoos: Navigating a new landscape
License Attribution: Noncommercial, No Derivative Works, Some rights reserved by Crushed Planet Once a month at our family Shabbat service we ask families to submit questions in advance in what, in...
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Wrestling with the Ethics of the Sochi Olympics
The more I read and learn about what has been happening in Russia, the more I am afraid for its citizens. The attention that the fairly recently implemented “anti-gay propaganda” law is getting is...
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A Dog at the Seder
As a child, the great Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas noticed that dogs appear in Torah at a crucial moment. On the night of the tenth plague, Torah says, “not a dog was barking” (Ex. 11:7). Young...
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A Taste of Eternity: Letters from the Front
The fifth of the Ten Commandments states: Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you (Exodus 20:12). My brother and I decided to...
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To Minsk on a Prayer
“Eastern Europe’s outcast, Belarus lies at the edge of the region and seems determined to avoid integration with the rest of the continent at all costs. Taking its lead from the Soviet Union rather...
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Explaining the Unexplainable in Minsk
“Yes,” I told the baffled American immigration official, “I was in Belarus for a roots trip.” But this in no way captured my experience of touring in the environs of Minsk with a German speaking group...
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Apologizing for Our Parents’ Sins
My husband and kids with my aunt and uncle on a rainy day in 2008. My mother was born in Germany in 1939. She grew up there, emigrating to the United States in 1968, after she married my father. This...
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