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Reflections from a Former Training Captain on the 2020 Harris Presidential Campaign in San Diego

I volunteered as a training captain for Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential campaign in San Diego. At a fundraiser hosted by a local women’s…

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I always began High Holy Day sermons with a joke. That was not as easy as it sounds, because the opening gag needed to be clean, funny, and relevant, and it could only be told once. When my limited repertoire of such…

Hanukkah is the next great holiday, and I remember a story my mother shared many years ago when I was much younger.

My mother told me her story about a strange and wonderful miracle that happened during the height of the Depression. She…

It’s 5:13 a.m., Monday, October 13, 2025, and I’ve already been awake for the better part of three hours. Like many, many Jews both in Israel and around the world, I can’t sleep. I’ve been following the news on my phone through…

Rabbanit Yael Leibowitz presents a fascinating interpretation of the biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah, relevant today, in her easy-to-read 2025 book, “Ezra-Nehemiah: Retrograde Revolution.” She writes that during the period of Ezra and…