Dear Friends: The fall holidays provide us with an annual opportunity to take stock of where we’ve been and where we are heading.  A different cycle also came to a close for me with the completion of a study discipline…

Dear Friends: My childhood Jewish religious education outside the home followed what I think was the conventional Conservative synagogue approach of the baby boom era.  We learned Bible stories and the aleph-bet, meeting a few hours every Sunday, from ages 5-9. …

Dear Friends:   Beverly and I continued our transition from New York to New Mexico this past quarter, swapping out New York-style pizza for green chile, as we embarked on the arduous task of unpacking hundreds of boxes, many of…

Dear Friends: I begin this bittersweet missive with a paraphrase of a passage from the first major Rabbinic text, the Mishnah, in which Rabbi Nechunya ben HaKanah composed a prayer (M. Ber. 4).  This prayer expresses my own experience with…