Toward Shabbat: Va-era
Tonight, we usher in the New Year on Shabbat, which means that my ritual countdown in front of the tv will be replaced by another ...
Monthly Archives:December 2021
Toward Shabbat: Shemot
We human beings can feel profoundly vulnerable at times, wounded by what life foists upon us and what we inflict on ourselves. Sometimes, we feel ...
Toward Shabbat: Vayehi
There were a few minutes within one of the concerts—a strange work based on mystical texts set to a combination of Persian music with rock, ...
In the Era of Culture Wars: What We Can Learn From the Story of Joseph and His Brothers
Everyone and every group is involved in their own pain: in the righteousness, the misfortune, the suffering of their own group, in the victimhood of ...
Dismantling Racism from the Inside Out: A New Cohort with Yehudah Webster and Rabbi David Jaffe
Join Rabbi David Jaffe and Yehudah Webster for an innovative new cohort as we seek to grapple with our own unconscious biases by addressing the ...
Toward Shabbat: Vayigash
This week, we entered into the month of Tevet. This is a time of year when many people struggle with feeling down, perhaps more so ...
Aviv Giving Circle
Aviv is hosting our first ever giving circle! A giving circle is a group of people who pool their charitable donations and decide together where ...
Toward Shabbat: Miketz
Getting to Yes, the “bible” of negotiation by Roger Fischer and William Ury, has sold over 2 million copies since its publication in 1981. It’s ...