‘You can’t choose the card you’re dealt, but you can choose to live every minute of it.’
Read More »The Queen’s Speech
Living in Boulder in these times, I have found two areas of interest besides covid, that stood out this November- One is the second year of Clean Speech Colorado, a program dedicated to teaching proper ways of talking. The second feature of this month is many of my friends’ fascination with the Netflix series, the Queen’s Gambit.
Read More »Hitting the Streets with My Sukkot Holiday Gear
What makes the Jewish holiday of Sukkot memorable for me is something I have loved to do ever since I first got my own set of the Four Kinds, the lulav and etrog set.
Read More »The Edges Of Illusion
I was the ninth winner in the Hassidic creative contest with this poem, among hundreds of submissions.
Read More »The Miracle Of Community
How can the saddest days of the year make someone happy?
Read More »The Space Between Us
This week’s parsha bears a striking echo to our current situation. It is the law of someone who got Tzaraat, a disease with physical symptoms of spiritual flaws that affected the person’s body, clothes, or even homes.
Read More »Home Alone – A Mystical Take On The Quarantine
This year’s Passover seders will be smaller than ever, but they may prepare us for the biggest event in history.
Read More »What Is The ‘Nu’ Normal?
We just finished reading the book of Exodus, and also the last of the special Torah readings before Passover. This reading, ‘the chapter of the NEW moon,’ begins with the mandate to declare the upcoming month of Nisan, as the first month in the Jewish calendar.
Read More »To Beat An Unbeatable Foe
Chanukah may be over but its message is not. Especially with recent challenges to Jewish lives, we need to find experiences that bolster our determination to thrive, and our confidence in humanity.
Read More »After the Fall
The word ‘Fall’ has varied associations. To the world, it is a season. On the calendar, it is ‘fall back’ time. For Jews, it is the month after a slew of holidays.
Read More »Counting On Horse Power
This year, during the 49 day Omer count that takes us from Pesach to Shavuot, and from the Exodus to the Revelation at Sinai, I have been preoccupied with the movie, "The Mustang," which I saw twice and would be happy to see again.
Read More »The Rebbe And Me: Post Poway Reflections
Morah Yehudis shares her thoughts about the Poway tragedy from Wednesday night's Yom HaShoah service.
Read More »Be Your Own Illuminary: Mary Poppins Returns, And So Does Adar
Maybe all you’re missing is inside of you...
Read More »Living By The Good Book
"But how can you call a family ‘upright’ if they fight so much?" As we come to the end of the book of Genesis, we are struck by the friction within the first Jewish families.
Read More »Watch But Don’t Look
‘Don’t let the lights….see your wallet.’ In the prayer recited after lighting, there is a phrase: ‘these candles are holy and we have no permission to use them.’
Read More »From Extinction To Eternity
Rather extraordinary, I say to myself. Two very different personalities, Father Desbois and Stan Lee, take center stage of history on the very same calendar day!
Read More »Divine Reflections
Morah Yehudis reflects on "Oh My God," the recent Theater Or production at the Boulder JCC featuring Rabbi Marc Soloway playing God.
Read More »Wolves Walk In Where Angels Fear To Tread
Post Rosh Hashanah may seem like a strange time to go to an off-beat movie. But after the fact, seeing Alpha did feel seasonally appropriate.
Read More »Identical Triplets And One Rebellious Son
So much in life is about listening, and so much about listening is hearing the unspoken.
Read More »Mr. Rogers Mirrors Torah
I recently saw his very favorably reviewed biopic, ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor.’ I loved the film and felt terrible at the same time.
Read More »Ikea at Sinai – A Shavuot Teaching
Please join us in an all-night community gathering of a ‘Tikkun’! Leil Shavuot, this year focusing on the theme of feminine Torah at Har Hashem on May 19th.
Read More »The Shape Of Our Inner Monsters
When I saw ‘The Shape of Water,’ this year’s Oscar winner, and winner of the Golden Globe awards, I was at first repulsed but then intrigued, both with the film and its director Guillermo Del Toro.
Read More »A Tale of Two Crowns
As Purim is upon us, I can’t help comparing the Purim story to the latest popular Netflix series, ‘The Crown.’
Read More »Soliloquy of Yehudis
Given the present day focus on gender abuse, the story portrayed here about Judith and the Maccabees seems to have particular contemporary relevance.
Read More »Coco and Jewish Perspectives on Life and Beyond
Honor your parents, follow your destiny, remember your ancestors, cherish honesty…prime Jewish values? Indeed, these are some of the main themes in the upcoming Joseph story throughout the final Torah portions of the book of Genesis.
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