Matir Asurim

Today at Yom Kippur services, I heard the story of the Scape-Goat through a new lens. Aaron shall take the two he-goats and let them sta...

Organized religion gets a bad rap these days. "I'm spiritual, not religious" is a common refrain.  Much evil is done in the ...

Thinking about things that are going on in my life made me change my Facebook profile picture to this: An old friend responded by pointin...

This project now has a home -- in Watertown, MA! Opening soon .....

The previous post touched on the futility of blame, whether directed towards others or to oneself.  More thinking and talking about self-bl...

Yesterday was the Jewish fast day of Tisha B'Av .   Traditionally , this fast commemorates the destruction of both the first and second ...

By now this is really old news.  So many other scandals, of far greater significance, have made headlines since the bigoted bakers refused t...