Please enjoy this podcast from Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism.

During the school year, I almost always feel like I am in a state of stress. I am the only social worker in a public high school in the city with over 1,400 students. School starts at 7:45am, I usually leave work around 5:30pm, then rush to get the kids at after

Sitting in Torah class I think about what a strange journey brought me here. My parents came from very religious families, and were each educated in religion. They became agnostics because of their experiences in Russia questioning how religion explained the evils they saw in Russia (pogroms and prejudices) My

One evening two weeks ago, my son Noam, age 5, called me from my husband’s cell phone while at the grocery store. He needed to tell me the following: Noam: Mommy, I am inside the Earth's belly! Me: You are? Noam: You are too! Me: Hmmm...interesting. Where did you learn

Where have I been? Where am I now? The events, people, places and relationships that brought me to this moment. 5777 was a momentous year. From the Cubs winning the World Series, to celebrating my daughter Sloan’s Bat Mitzvah, to seeing Hamilton, it was filled with many meaningful and enjoyable