Greetings from Camp!
08/12/2025 02:12:21 PM
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This column comes your way from Great Barrington, MA – home of Eisner Camp, which is our region’s Union of Reform Judaism overnight camp. Like most URJ camps, Eisner invites rabbis to spend up to a week with them during their different summer sessions. Guest rabbis teach, help with services and electives, and are generally on hand as a rabbinic presence for the kids. So, armed...Read more...
Va-et'chanan
08/06/2025 04:00:49 PM
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Perhaps the hardest lesson for any child to learn is that parental decisions are sometimes final, whether or not one agrees with their parent’s logic. With infuriating consistency, no means no, no matter how much a child may plead, pucker out a lower lip, or employ the most adorable, irresistible pair of puppy dog eyes. Asking again five minutes later is unlikely to result in a different...Read more...
Loss and Rebirth
08/01/2025 08:01:57 AM
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A good friend of mine once reflected that life is a process of discovering why clichés are clichés. Does the phrase “where does the time go” count?! It’s hard to believe it’s the first of August already, with its ever-present heat, sudden and fierce rainstorms, summer concerts and festivals. Here at TBD we have our own summer traditions: outdoor Torah Study, Parents’ Night Out and Sisterhood Dinners. It is...Read more...
We Love Our (Ch)others!
07/25/2025 09:40:59 AM
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Depending on how you work the numbers, I’m one of 9 children. Or 11. Or 16. After my parents split, each remarried someone who brought their own kids into the mix. So, for anyone keeping score: 3 brothers (1 deceased), 5 sisters, 1 half-brother, 1 half-sister, 3 stepsisters, 2 stepbrothers. Some of these siblings grew up with me in Albany—sharing values, bedrooms, clothes, a love of corny jokes, and the local...Read more...
In the Heat of the Torah...
07/18/2025 08:37:56 AM
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Many conversations I've had over these last months have touched on the topic of resistance. When something happens that sparks our individual and/or collective outrage (and there are, unfortunately, too many things to list here) what is the best way to voice our feelings? Is it through writing letters, contributing money or time to organizations doing work we believe in? Is it civil disobedience? Or making sure our...Read more...
Listen to the Wise-Ass
07/11/2025 08:56:21 AM
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Some weeks, drawing connections between the Torah portion and current events can feel like a reach. And then there are weeks like this one, when the parallels are impossible to ignore.
Parashat Balak is a story rooted in fear—fear of occupation, fear of being overwhelmed, fear of the other. The Moabites and Midianites grow anxious as they watch the Israelites temporarily settle near their borders. To Balak, king of Moab, this...Read more...
AMERICA YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL, BUT YOU HAVE GOT TO CHANGE.[1]
07/04/2025 09:22:55 AM
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Among the many interviews the marvelous Terry Gross has conducted on her show “Fresh Air,” I heard one this week with Jeffrey Seller, a Broadway producer responsible for one of the greatest musical successes of our time. That would be Hamilton, which Seller reminded us is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year! What a show that was… and still is. The source material was unlikely. The...Read more...
Struggle, Light and Love
06/26/2025 11:36:00 AM
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For those who attended TBD’s Pride Shabbat Service on June 13, you were treated to an exceptional D’var Torah by one of our congregants, Lori Sudderth. For those who were not there, here is an opportunity to read her words. As Pride Month comes to an end, may we be blessed with a renewed sense of confidence in who we are, and a commitment to celebrating difference and diversity in the months and years to come.
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Are We There Yet?
06/19/2025 02:11:09 PM
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It’s a mark most journeys hit at one point or another. As we get closer to our destination, wondering what is ahead takes on new urgency. What is it really going to be like there? Will we find our way smoothly or will we get lost? What if we arrive too early or too late and there is no one there to meet us? These disquieting questions are stirred about until they reach a boiling point which...Read more...
Raising Light in the Wilderness
06/12/2025 02:23:24 PM
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This week’s Torah portion, B’haalot’cha, continues the saga of a people in motion—newly freed Israelites journeying through the wilderness, guided by the mysterious signs of God: a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night--divine markers offering clarity, direction, and assurance amid uncertainty and fear. When the cloud lifted, the people moved. When it rested, they...Read more...
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