Published in These Holy Days: A  High Holidays Supplement After October, Academy for Jewish Religion, August 2024. My Dear Children, Oy! Such a year this has been for you and Me. I have seen everything and share your horror. I have heard your pleas that I have mercy on those who are in captivity and…

from Seder Interrupted: A Post October 7 Haggadah Supplement Published by the Academy for Jewish Religion, Passover 5784/2024   Know well that your offspring shall be strangers in a land not theirs, and they shall be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years… and in the end they shall go forth with great wealth. —The…

Published by T’ruah, March 2024   Unlike the Exodus, the Bible’s archetypal redemptive narrative, the theology of Esther puts the responsibility of saving us from our enemies in human rather than divine hands. As a consequence, the story raises challenging questions about how we respond to those who rise up against us, and how we…