Our Voices

December is here, and that can only mean one thing… it’s time to break out your frying pan, oil and potatoes, and start working on your favorite recipe for latkes. Because, no matter how you spell it, Hanukkah is coming! And this year of course,it coincides with Christmas. And like...Read more...

Yom Kippur Yizkor 5875 | 2024

I want to tell you about my friend and teacher, Linda Mechanic. She was the woman who first taught me pottery. She inspired in me a love of shaping clay and sharing it with others. Linda ran a small pottery studio in Los Angeles called Peach Tree Pottery. After that first day...Read more...

Kol Nidre 5785 | 2024

On Rosh Hashanah morning, I extended the theme that Rabbi Berg introduced the night before, on sacred listening and the importance of making room for more than one narrative. I spoke about our Jewish identity and connection to Judaism and Jewish peoplehood in...Read more...

Erev Rosh Hashanah 5875 | 2024

When students are studying to be rabbis, we are assigned to small communities for the High Holidays that don’t have full-time clergy. From the very beginning of one such visit, a community member (let’s call her Louise) made herself known....Read more...

My husband and I have lived a rather nomadic life. We first met in New York City and spent the early years of our marriage in Pennsylvania. We’ve lived in Princeton, NJ, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (twice), in Burlingame, and now, in Washington, DC.  

Six...Read more...