Yom Kippur Mincha 5779
The word Mincha literally means present, gift or offering. Normally at Mincha on Yom Kippur you may experience a Torah service, with a...
Reading Jewish Women: Marginality as Opportunity, A SpeakChorus
(Presented at Limmud Vancouver, 2018) When I was in Rabbinic school, I took a history course on the Jewish Enlightenment/Haskalah, a...
Vayigash: A Mirror for Our Giving
(Prepared for T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights) My sister is developmentally disabled. Although she is very high functioning,...
The Or Shalom Cemetery: A Community Teaching on related issues of Integral Halacha
When I began my Senior Teshuva (Responsa) project, knowing that Or Shalom was in the process of acquiring the rights to a section of...
Israel, Canada and Me in the Age of Trump
(Prepared for Independent Jewish Voices) I think I’m the only Canadian born on this panel. Not only was I born in Canada, in North...
