Torah and the Blues with Special Guest Joey Weisenberg is Episode 87 of A Dash of Drash.

Pharaoh's Heart, Our Hearts is Episode 86 of A Dash of Drash with Special Guest Rabbi Elyse Frishman, editor of Mishkan T'filah, the Reform Siddur published in 2007.

Singing through Chaos with Special Guest Rabbi Aviva Richman, recorded live at BJ in New York, is Episode 85 of A Dash of Drash.

Vayechi  (Genesis 47:28 - 50:26) means "and he lived" and is the last parsha of the first book of Torah. 

And Judah approached Joseph - vayifgash alav. 

A selection of some spoken word poetry written over the last month in Alabama, Warsaw, Auschwitz, Krakow, Berlin and Prague.

Jews, Czechs, Poles, Jacob and Esau is Episode 81 of A Dash of Drash, recorded in my last hour in Prague.

I visited Auschwitz for the first time last week and am still processing that intense experience, which has left a lasting imprint on me.

"I am sitting in the cafe the Galicia Museum in Krakow's Jewish quarter, which tells the 1,000 year old tale of Jews in this land."

Tonight there was a very powerful and moving vigil at JW3, London's JCC, for the victims of Pittsburgh. 

In these challenging times, we have to sustain the vision of a nation and a world where our freedoms of expression and practice, whoever we are, are cherished and protected.

Parshat Vayera (Genesis 18:1–22:24) includes towards the end the very challenging story of Akedat Yitzhak, the Binding of Isaac.

I was in Birmingham following a mission to Montgomery with 35 rabbis and other Jewish leaders, on a trip organized by T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, to visit the incredible Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. 

The stories in Genesis are full of depth, mystery and profound lessons for each generation. Parshat Noah begins with the story of the catastrophic flood (Chapter 6) and ends with tale of The Tower of Babel (Chapter 11).

On the sixth day, according to the story, Adam, the first human form, is created in God's image. Was that a good thing?

Aviva Marilyn Robinson, mother of Abby Kone Robinson, passed away on Sunday afternoon September 23, 2018, right before Sukkot in Michigan.

Phyllis Dinhoffer, mother of Kara Mertz, died on September 14, 2018 at her home at The Carillon, just three months after her beloved husband Joel. 

In these frightening times where anti-Semitism and other forces of hate are alive and well in our world, we have an obligation to remember Doris Small, Devorah bat Moshe u’Miriam, and to tell her story, even though it’s no fairy tale.

Doris Small passed away early in the morning of September 3rd, 2018, with her daughter by her side. The funeral will be Tuesday, September 4th.

Every morning during the month of Elul, leading us into the New Year, it is traditional to blow and hear the shofar whose voice is supposed to wake us up to our mission.