Jewish Institute for Lifelong Learning & Innovation

There is one passage in the TaNaKh1 that has always heightened my discomfort around the concept of wars, which we will read in this week’s haftarah2.

This past Sunday JILLI held its first healing service. We will have a healing service every third Sunday of the month. I hope you will join us for these services, since there are so many people and places that need healing.

I prefer not to write about politics and politicians. In this polarized climate we live in everything becomes a provocation, every word said in favor or against a politician

How are you? This is a question we hear constantly. It is a question that we all ask and answer, frequently without putting much thought behind it.

People frequently ask me questions about Judaism. Some are questions regarding practice, some are serious theological questions, and some fall in the category of “interesting.”

Gratitude is something that most of us feel and not always express. I know that although I have been grateful for things, I have failed sometimes to properly express my gratitude,

This week we remember Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. On November 9, 1938, thousands of Jewish establishments were destroyed by mobs throughout Nazi Germany.

The author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered a TED talk titled “The Danger of a Single Story,” about how stereotypes limit and shape our thinking.

In Martin Buber’s Tales of the Hasidim we read that Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Przysucha taught: “Everyone must have two pockets.

Breath. It is something seemingly so simple. And yet, so complex.