After the Flood - A Prayer
09/18/2013 02:44:54 PM
By Marc Soloway, Congregation Bonai Shalom, Boulder, CO
Out of the depths of the flood waters we cry out to you El Shaddai, to say “dai — enough. It has been enough.”
Let the drowning earth dry out once again and show us the reassuring promise of your rainbow!
As we celebrate the joy of the gift of water and as we prepare to pray for rain, let us remember that when it is withheld, the...Read more...
Violence - 2nd Day Rosh HaShanah 5774
09/10/2013 02:46:00 PM
Back in April, I was invited by Father Ted Howard to participate in a discussion at St. John’s Episcopal Church on the theme of violence in scripture. A light subject as part of the Christian Holy week. Our religious texts have so much in them that is violent and yet we want to believe that the core message of our traditions is love and compassion. That night I discovered, of course, that some Christians believe that what...Read more...
Embracing Doubt - 1st Day Rosh HaShanah 5774
09/09/2013 02:46:08 PM
A few years ago, one Shabbat morning in Jerusalem, I was part of a very popular community called Shirah Chadashah and I found myself sitting behind two of the greatest contemporary Jewish thinkers, philosophers of the generation. Rabbi David Hartman, the influential, liberal Orthodox founder of the enlightened Hartman Center, who died earlier this year, and his son-in-law, philosophy professor, Moshe...Read more...
A Eulogy for Kathy Meals
05/01/2013 02:48:15 PM
Kathleen Ann Meals
Elianna Segulah bat Avraham v’Sarah z”l
8/27/50 – 4/29/13
“Cops and Jews”
“Aishet Chayil mi yimtzah, v’rachok mip’ni’nim michrah. A woman of valor. A strong woman, who can find her? Her worth is above rubies,” says the Book of Proverbs.” Who can find her? We found one in Kathy...Read more...
Read more... Turkey Talk
11/15/2011 02:50:46 PM
I was not brought up with Thanksgiving. Guy Fawkes night on November 5th, with bonfires and fireworks, yes, but Thanksgiving, no. In fact my first exposure to this very American holiday was when I was in Yeshiva in Jerusalem, where a group of American students enjoyed the opportunity to invite a Hungarian, South African and an Englishman (that would be me) to their festive gathering. There was a politically correct and insightful reenactment...Read more...
Read more... A Very Different Night
04/10/2010 03:15:18 PM
I have rarely experienced a more powerful gathering than the diverse group gathered together that different night in my living room. Two Christian pastors, one a dedicated activist working against the horrors of human trafficking, the other a Methodist deeply immersed in looking at the Jewishness of the historical Jesus; a very religious Muslim student intoxicated with God and fascinated by other religions; Rastafarian Qabbalists; a whimsical...Read more...
A Prayer for the People of Haiti
01/21/2010 03:15:23 PM
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