Cosgrove: I skipped Sunday’s pro-Israel rally and got on a plane to Israel instead
When I received a call from a colleague asking me to attend, address, and mobilize my community for a pro-Israel rally on Sunday, I paused a beat before answering. I love Israel, and, as Woody Allen once said, most of life is just showing up. Israel needs friends, always, and especially now. So why did I pause?
Can we bend the boundaries of Shabbat without breaking them?
I struggle as a rabbi. By livestreaming on Shabbat have I stepped onto a slippery slope from which there is no escape?
How can we heal America? Look to the Egyptians who aided Moses.
Civil society does not unravel all at once. There is no one moment when conscience crumbles and dissent dies.
As the Peace Corps turns 60, we must revisit its lessons
John F. Kennedy challenged Americans to sacrifice for the good of their country; the message is vital in today’s conditions.
American Judaism is ready for disruption - and Covid has accelerated the need for it.
Covid has been a disruptor and accelerator for American Jewry laying bare questions that have been around for some time.
Which verse would the President quote?
President Trump used the Bible for a photo op — but he never opened it. If he had, which verse might he have used to heal our country?
‘What she lacked was the goodness of possibility:’ Parallels with Ruth in a pandemic
The redemptive arc of Ruth is not linear, but rather comes by way of individual acts of goodness.
The new Chancellor of JTS will take up a mantle of both tradition and innovation
We need a Chancellor willing to boldly renew Jewish tradition even as the nature of community and identity formation is changing.
Graduations, camp and more is canceled. ‘What can we say that does not risk pablum or platitudes?’
Far easier than knowing what to say is to begin with what not to say — how not to respond.
‘In all of the pain I am reminded why I became a rabbi in the first place’
Until this month, I have never recited vidui — the death-bed prayer — to a person over the phone, and I hope never to do so ever again.