I had the privilege to be on a great Podcast hosted by my colleague Rabbi Neil Amswych of Santa Fe, New Mexico. It’s call SoulSearching and is hosted by KSFR Public Radio in Santa Fe. Here’s our time together:
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Israel is the ONLY LGBTQ Safe Haven in the Middle East.
I share with you all my latest column in the Jewish Journal
It’s here!!!!
To say I am a bit excited is an understatement. But it arrived yesterday! “Gender and Religious Leadership: Women Rabbis, Pastors and Ministers, my new book co-edited with my good friends and scholars, Hartmut Bomhoff , Kathy Eherensperger and Walter Homolka is out! I received the author’s copies yesterday. I hope you are interested in…Read more »
From Despair to Hope: Facing Our Depths And Lifting toward Hope.
My sermon from Rosh Hashanah Eve 5780 Delivered at Congregation Kol Ami. The world is broken. But you already knew that. You didn’t need to come here to understand the fragile nature of the times we are in. We just have to look around us to see the world is on fire. Literally and figuratively.…Read more »
Gender and Religious Leadership
I am thrilled to announce the upcoming publication of a book I co-edited: Gender and Religious Leadership: Women Rabbis, Pastors and Ministers. It is to be published next month by Lexington Books which is an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield. It is an in-depth look at the impact of women’s leadership on religion and religious…Read more »
A Teach In Before the Women’s March
Sunday night I had the privilege of being part of the ZIONESS sponsored Teach- In before the upcoming Women’s March. As you may be aware the Women’s March has been roiled in Antisemitism. Well the truth is some of the leader’s of the DC March have been on record with Anti-Semitic speech and supporting virulent…Read more »
A Time of Remembrance, Healing and Consolation
We are all still reeling from the events in Pittsburgh which murdered eleven members of the Jewish People and harmed many more including four police officers. Join Rabbi Eger and Rabbi Chaiken for 45 minutes on Tuesday evening October 30 at 6:45-7:30 pm at Congregation Kol Ami 1200 N. La Brea Ave, West Hollywood for…Read more »
Hate Crimes in Los Angeles County
I shouldn’t be shocked by this time. But the Los Angeles County statistics on Hate Crimes came out this week. In the category of religious hate crimes. The overwhelming number of them are against Jews. Antisemitism is alive and well in the City of Angels. According to the latest information from the Los Angeles County…Read more »
Rabbiner Regina Jonas
This Shabbat–Shabbat Bereshit, is the yarzeit, (the anniversary of the death) of the first ordained woman rabbi, Regina Jonas. She died in Auschwitz at the hands of the Nazis. Born in Berlin in 1902, Jonas died in October of 1944 after being deported from Terezin Concentration Camp to Auschwitz Death Camp. Jonas was ordained…Read more »
After the Holy Days
It has been a long Jewish month. The Jewish holy days of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shimini-Azeret, Simchat Torah and Hoshanah Rabbah are now behind us for 5779. The intensity of the Jewish Holy Day Season is a marathon of the soul and sometimes the body too. For those of us who are clergy,…Read more »