I I am a baptized Jew. And none of this was by choice. We don’t ask to be born or to whom, nevertheless, I was born a Jew. My mother was not Jewish by birth. In fact, her background was about the furthest you could get from Jewishness. Alice Comer Lide – Lide is thought to be the anglicization of the Welsh surname – was born in Florence, South Carolina in 1932, the youngest of four sisters. Her father was a country doctor, and her grandfather a Baptist minister. Her ancestry

Today, a door creaks open in the desert of our hearts, and breath, long held, is finally released. We are ecstatic at the release of the hostages, and eagerly await the day when r emains of those who died in captivity are returned. We rejoice, finally, at the release of the 20 remaining living hostages – and still, our joy trembles. It is the joy that knows how much has been lost. It is the joy that remembers those who did not come home. It is the joy that stands beside

It is with deep sadness that we share the news that our beloved founder and Rabbi Emeritus, Rabbi Burt Siegel, passed away peacefully on the evening of July 20th.

The final entry in Anne Silverman's series on bridging the gap between people with opposite political views.

The beginning of Rabbi Burt Aaron Siegel's lifelong Jewish journey.

Rabbi Shai Held holds that Judaism is about love and that becoming human is about actualizing the potential for love that is within us.

Our Passover/Easter meal was a success. The food was good, we all laughed a lot; and yet sometimes the best of intentions can go awry.

What topics should we discuss and avoid during a combination celebration for Passover and Easter?

We all know about the usual representative items on the seder plate, but several unexpected things have been appearing on seder plates in recent times that convey great meaning.

Rabbi Burt takes a moment to discuss suffering and our relationship to the suffering of others.