Truth gives life I have disliked the name my mother gave me for as long as I can remember. I tried talking with her about changing it one time during my childhood, and her reaction was such that it has taken me into my sixties to reconsider the issue. Can you imagine sixty years of … Continue reading A New Name

Image by Ralph from Pixabay Human conflicts are rarely simple, and few are more complex than the one we are seeing unfold before our aghast eyes right now in the Middle East. But it seems to me that the real enemy is one that we have been dealing with since the days of Cain and … Continue reading The Real Enemy

Image by Jackie Ramirez from Pixabay As you read this blog on Wednesday, this week it has been Thanksgiving in Canada, Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the US, and Isru Chag, the day marking the end of the High Holy Day season, for most Jews in the Diaspora (Israeli and Reform Jews marked it on Sunday). … Continue reading On Gratitude in Hard Times

Our sukkah This week Jewish people around the world celebrated Sukkot - the Feast of Booths, in which we build a little hut, known as a sukkah, outside our homes and do our best to live in it for a week, given the vagaries of weather. Here in Winnipeg, we are lucky any year we … Continue reading Reminding Us of Precarity