Pop Parsha: Al Franken and Nitzavim

Words of Torah before Sen. Franken at the Jewish Federation of St. Paul’s Gala. Will the high holidays be just a moment of repenting before we go about our everyday business? Or something more?

My Yom Kippur Without Fasting

It’s the holiday of looking inward. Of judgment. Of taking an accounting of one’s self and one’s sins. But how to make the holiday meaningful when you’re pregnant and can’t fast?

Yehiyeh Beseder: It Will Be All Right.

For Israelis there is no other option. When asked how everything will turn out – the economic crisis, possibility of attack, religious divisions, the answer is Yehiyeh Beseder. It will be all right.