The Return of a Lost Object: 60 years later
The Torah commands us to return lost objects. Returning a lost object is one of the 613 commandments. When I was sixteen, my parents gave...
Walk On
The four of us walked in memory of Helen, a 49 year-old mother, wife, daughter, aunt, friend. My neighbor’s daughter. In 2023, an...
The Uber Hamsa
The blue Hamsa hung from his dashboard so I had to ask. “Tell me about the Hamsa.” “Oh” he said, “A very special woman gave it to me...
The Eternity of Preparation
If you read the Torah literally, one would surmise that it took God seven days to create the entire world. However, from a scientific...
Preparing for Re-Creation
We last wrote to each other in July 2020. The world shut down a few months before (March 2020) and, frankly, so did I. The Covid pause...
Whom Shall I Fear?
Next to my bedroom window hangs an abridged framed version of Psalm 27. The Lord is my Light and my Salvation Whom Shall I Fear? Thou...
If you can't be there, feel there
My family has acquired the new Facebook Portal. As we get ready to do a virtual Passover Seder 2020, this new technology brings me closer...
Let Us Pray
Yesterday, as I passed the spectacular St. Matthew’s Cathedral, the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese in Washington DC, I...
What I Do Matters: Especially Today
When I saw the images and heard the video of the young white supremacist men parading with lit torches around the campus of the...
Obligation to Tell Our Story: My Book Launch
Rabbi Tamara Miller’s memoir: You Are The Book Save the Date for Birthday Book Launch! Sixth & I Historic Synagogue June 11, 2017 5:00...
