Posted at 01:08 PM in , not where it will end. Our work is to stay home, help those whom we can help, and cultivate our ability to hope. May scientists' labors toward a vaccine bear fruit, so that someday this slow-motion global tragedy will end and we will dance on the far shores of the sea. Resources for Seder in a Time of Quarantine ..read more

Posted at 08:00 PM in need to cry out, because that's the first step in opening our hearts to God -- to hope -- to the possibility that things can get better. /צר sound there?) But this isn't about geography, it's about an existential state of being so constricted that we couldn't even hear the hope that things could be better than this. Connections: Liturgy, Art, and Poetry for Tu BiShvat , one of my colleagues said something that moved me so much I wrote it on a post-it and stuck it to my desk. I wrote ..read more

Posted at 09:32 AM in here's a fascinating and distressing article about the original image and its origins "on a blog discussing the conspiracy behind Jewish ritual murder of Christians." In 2001, which is to say, in this century. I wish I were making this up. at the time, and against for thousands of years we've been a favorite scapegoat . And did you know .  I give them credit for recognizing that yeah, we had reason to be afraid. Ye has twice as many Twitter followers as there are Jews on earth? And now there's the ..read more