Commentary

For those of you just tuning in: In June of 2016, I wrote an affectionate ode to the phenomenon of rapping clergy. In that piece, I focused the majority of my attention on a music video titled “Rabbi Sid, The Rappin’ Rabbi.” Little did I know that the grandson of Jerry Glantz, who played Rabbi Sid, would contact me in November of the same year and offer to tell me all about his zaida (Yiddish for grandfather).

Civility is at heart being honest and kind.  Civility is not failing to call out ignorance, or hiding one's deep convictions, but how those are presented in public.

It is so easy to feel that there is no fixing the problems facing the world.

What I mean by “the church” is the institutional church with all of its rules. Maybe that sounds odd.

Have you ever wanted to wish your Jewish friends a happy holiday, but maybe you weren’t sure if the upcoming Jewish holiday even was a happy one? You are not alone.

The holidays have a way of being both joyous and wistful.