Our Voices

In 2023 and 2024, a team of attorneys from Peninsula Temple Sholom undertook three cases for Afghan refugees, petitioning for permanent refugee asylum in collaboration with the pro bono legal arm of Jewish Family & Children's Services East Bay ("JFCS-EB"). In total, we represented six...Read more...

Almost every evening, I’m greeted by a familiar and welcome sound—my husband Dan whistling as he walks through the front door. I love the way he enters the house, upbeat, and smiling, no matter what kind of day he’s had. I think his whistling reflects his ability to find his...Read more...

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...