Tazria-M’tzora – that dreaded parashah that sends B’nai Mitzvah families screaming into the night. And who can blame them? With detailed, unflinching descriptions of bodily discharges and scaly skin disease, these portions are a challenge for modern...
B’reishit. “Beginning.” A new beginning. How thrilling that every year we get to start over. The gift of an unblemished new start, untouched by triumphs or challenges. We finish the story and we immediately begin it again.
At my congregation for Simchat...
Recently, I spent a Sunday afternoon at a virtual “Spring Training.” Spring Training is a program that the Union for Reform Judaism organizes every year at this time.
I have a special fondness for this week’s parashah, Yitro. The most important reason for this is that Yitro was my Bat Mitzvah parashah.
Like so many women, I became a Bat Mitzvah as an adult. In 1998, I saw a small article in my congregation bulletin...
I recently had the opportunity to visit Israel as part of the 2018 WRJ Wilkenfeld International Women’s Leadership Seminar.