Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, our weekly reflection as we make our way towards Shabbat. You can listen to it as a podcast HERE. I share the words I offered this past week at our Temple Israel’s zoom program for the Reclaim Our Vote Campaign featuring Wanda Mosley from Black Votes Matter. 150 members of our community […]

Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, our weekly reflection as we make our way towards Shabbat. You can listen to it as a podcast HERE. Integrity is a choice of how one wants to lead and to inspire. It also reflects the decisions one makes about one’s life. In this week’s Torah portion, Moses warned the Israelites that […]

Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, our weekly reflection as we make our way towards Shabbat. You can listen to it as a podcast HERE. This day is marked as crucial and determines every other day. In the Torah portion for this week, the Hebrew word for this day is hayom. It appears three times, once in each […]

Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we move into Shabbat. You can listen to it as a podcast HERE. Each morning, I have a routine. When the alarm sounds, I reach for my phone. An email from The New York Times and CNN have already arrived in my inbox.  Lying flat on my bed […]