I’m inspired once again by Thich Nhat Hahn’s writings in “Teachings on Love”: Each moment of our lives, each moment that is given to us to live, we have to live very deeply. If you are capable of living deeply one moment of your life, you can learn to live the same way all the […]
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Yom Yerushalayim Recollection
I love Jerusalem. I fell in love with Jerusalem when I lived there as a rabbinical student. I fell in love with Loren Filson Lapidus in Jerusalem that same year. Like many people that have lived in Jerusalem, I’ve lived through bus bombings and other forms of terrorism and violence. And like everyone who […]
A Visionary Moment
Earlier today a press release was issued signaling a historic shift in the landscape of Jewish Day School Education in North America. Approximately 100,000 children attend Jewish day schools in North America. Previously, the landscape of the Jewish day school included 5 independent organizations. These 5 organizations often worked in harmony with one another because, […]
Happy are those
A personal approach to Psalm 145. Ashrei yoshvei vetecha, od y’halelhu selah. All the people that have impacted my life. Blessing my children on Friday night. Coming to work at a place that I love and believe in. Different experiences I’ve had that have shaped me. Ego humbling moments when I’ve learned that the world […]
4 years later
This week I had the chance to reconnect with students from The Davis Academy class of 2011 as they’re getting ready to graduate high school. Time is a funny thing. It seems like only yesterday that they were Davis students. At the same time, it feels like ages ago, a different world. It’s always striking […]
Making room for Shabbat
Behold our dining room table: Tonight we pushed back some of the stuff of daily life to make room for Shabbat. Hence our dining room table is 1/2 Shabbat and 1/2 the stuff of daily life. Two kids, two jobs, Amazon prime, birthday party supplies, unpacking from recent Israel trip: the […]