As I sit here writing to you, the scent of jasmine is wafting into my office window - and it sits here right here alongside my broken heart. How in the world do we deal with nineteen children's lives being cut down in a senseless act of violence? With ten innocent Black Americans gunned down while shopping for food? How is it possible that those of us Continue Reading
A Prayer For One Who Enters A Synagogue
I wrote this prayer after the massacre of Jews at prayer at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. A gunman, stoked by the anti-immigrant rhetoric and desiring to do harm to the synagogue which was connected to Jewish efforts to support immigrants and asylum seekers, stormed into the synagogue on Shabbat, spraying bullets everywhere. Unfortunately, Continue Reading
