Clik here to view.
Rabbi Rami Shapiro
I met Rabbi Rami Shapiro in the early 1990's when he had the pulpit at Temple Beth Or in Miami,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rosh Hashanah Revelations
On Sunday night at sundown, Jews all over the world will be celebrating Rosh Hashanah, colloquially known as The Jewish New Year. The words translate to 'the head of the year' and is considered the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Holy Rascal
A few months ago, I was invited to be part of a growing movement, as it were. It meant claiming a part of my identity that I had kept under wraps for far too long and honoring aspects of myself that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Freedom vs. Safety
Yesterday, I was interviewed on the How To Be A Holy Rascal radio show hosted by my friend Rabbi Rami Shapiro on Unity.FM Radio. Rami and I have known each others since the early 1990's. I sense that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reb Zalman
I heard the news today about the passing of an icon in the Jewish community, whose reach exceeded 'the tribe' into which he was born. An emissary of peace, an interfaith advocate and a fellow 'Holy...
View ArticleThis Year’s Prayer
I have long believed that prayer is portable. It is too expansive to be uttered only in an edifice such as a church, synagogue, temple, mosque or oak grove. It is not limited to one language or ritual;...
View ArticleFasting and Forgiveness
I am sitting cross-legged in bed on a morning set aside from others in the Jewish religion in which I was raised. As a child, at this point in the day, I would be in synagogue, wearing a dress, knee...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The God of My Understanding
I grew up in a religiously, culturally and gastronomically Jewish home in Willingboro, NJ which is a suburb of Philadelphia. Our family went to synagogue weekly, practiced holiday rituals, lit the...
View Article
