Whenever I feel afraid
Mia Mercado, in The New Yorker in 2018, said that the scariest part about being a human in the world today is [...]
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Va-yar Elohim et ha-Or
We are taught that there is powerful light that cannot be physically seen. We must all discover and shine that light around us. [...]
My mom and dad
My dad was born in 1922, my mom in 24, both first generation Americans. They met at Camp Kindervelt when they [...]
Pre-Marital Counseling
You might say I came to premarital counseling backwards. I spent 19 years as a divorce lawyer, and worked [...]
Creating Your Own Rituals
I read an article a while ago in which Lisa Kudrow told the story of her son’s bar mitzvah. Her son, [...]
I Will Remember my parents, my grandfather, Dolly and Covid 19
It is perhaps not strange how much I thought of my parents during the last months before I was ordained. My [...]
My grandfather died at my wedding
It was quite an event. My grandfather was a great man. Abraham Jacob Viniar. Known as Yakov. He fled the [...]
A story for Parashat Shemot, the burning bush
I was tending the flock of my father-in-law. I drove the flock into the wilderness, and I came to a [...]
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