03/18/2020
The virtualization of the Jewish world due to the coronavirus pandemic will fundamentally alter the nature of Jewish engagement.
08/29/2017
How a former Catholic became a believer and leader of collective Jewish prayers of repentance.
07/18/2016
A Calypso reinterpretation of Adon Olam
08/25/2015
I am an Internet rabbi. Every night, people from over 20 countries come into my virtual living room to recite the traditional Sephardic selichot, the prayers in preparation for the High Holy Day season, together as a tzibbur, a community.
06/22/2015
It begins like an old Hasidic story. A reluctant maskil is strong-armed into visiting a chasidic rebbe. In this case, the rebbe was Reb Zalman and the maskil was myself. I was to serve as the translator for a virtual yechidus, an intimate one-on-one meeting, between Reb Zalman and a grateful Latin American student, Dr. Juan Jimenez Bravo.
05/18/2015
1 in 6 contemporary Jews are new to Judaism.
03/02/2015
Imagine Purim by the crystal clear and warm waters of the Caribbean Sea.
09/11/2014
Change is an inevitable part of our lives.
03/14/2014
Carnival, Mardi Gras, Carnaval.
11/19/2013
Oklahoma City, where I live, has an amazing Jewish community.