Posted by in Uncategorized What is PARR you ask? PARR is the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis. And our annual conference that takes place each January begins today! And you thought it was a golf tournament! No, each January Reform rabbis from 13 states on the West Coast and British Columbia gather together for learning and support and a…Read more »
Posted by in Uncategorized Today is Shabbat. Not a bad way to start the secular New Year. Shabbat is time for prayer and reflection. And isn’t this idea of contemplation of one’s life a part of the secular New Year’s tradition? The Sabbath is the pinnacle of creation. On the seventh day God rested from all the work of…Read more »
Posted by in Uncategorized Parshat Vayechi Genesis 47:28 – 50:26 We have come to the final Torah portion of Genesis for 5770. It happens to coincide for the last week of the year and the first Shabbat of 2010! We have come also to the close of the lives of Jacob and then Joseph. Jacob has been brought down to…Read more »
Posted by in Uncategorized Time is Ticking! The 2009 is counting down quickly. Are you glad to see the year go? Or has it been a year of blessings? It is hard to believe the first decade is of the second millenium of the Common Era is gone. Ten years have ticked by since we feared the Y2K bug…Read more »
Posted by in Uncategorized Well this week we have much to celebrate! South of the Border marriage for Gays and Lesbians have been making headlines. Mexico City’s mayor gave the movement and Mexico City residents a great gift of justice and equality as now gay and lesbian couples there can legally marry and legally adopt children! This in a very…Read more »
Posted by in Uncategorized With the kids on vacation from school, what to do all day with them is an issue. Fortunately I have a teen-ager that has a tight group of friends. The “Baseball Boys” I call them. They all play ball together and have for many years even before High School. They played all through Pony League…Read more »
Posted by in camera, glbt, Uncategorized Yesterday I officiated at a wedding. Not unusual for me on a Sunday afternoon. While there was an official wedding photographer almost every guest at this wedding had a camera of his or her own. You know the kinds. Small digital cameras that fit in the palm of your hand. And those that didn’t have…Read more »
Posted by in Uncategorized Well it is here. The last week of 2009 is about to unfold. With New Year’s on Friday many people will be thinking about the past year and how quickly it stormed by. What were the highlights of your year? There are certainly no end to lists of the greatest moments or greatest news stories…Read more »
Posted by in Uncategorized When I was a small child I loved baseball. We lived for a while outside of Pittsburgh, PA. And that was Pirates country. In the sixties this wasn’t a bad thing other than the very polluted air from all of the steel mills. The Pirates were a good team with a true baseball hero-Roberto Clemente!…Read more »
Posted by in Uncategorized This week’s Torah portion is Vayigash in the book of Genesis. See yesterday’s blog post for my commentary for this week on this Torah portion. But I also have a different way to look at this portion, Vayigash published in the new Torah commentary, Torah Queeries by NYU Press. Edited by Jewish Mosaic Leaders, Gregg Drinkwater,…Read more »
Walking Humbly. Seeking Justice. Living with Hope. 