Our Voices

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...

I have a distinct memory of the first time I felt lucky to be Jewish.

I was in elementary school, and I had just learned that only about two percent of all Americans, and less than one-half of one percent of all the people in the world,...Read more...

As long as I have been a rabbi and have been composing eulogies to give comfort to mourners, I have found tremendous power in these words by Rabbi Sidney Greenberg: “The Psalmist wisely spoke of walking ‘through the valley of the shadow.’ No road of life can detour...Read more...