Adat Israel, Guatemala City Dear Friends:One of the luxuries of not making my living as a rabbi is that I don’t deliver very many sermons.  (I suspect this is viewed as a great benefit by my congregants as well).  In…

Los Alamos Community Seder at “Pig and Fig” Restaurant in White Rock, New Mexico. Photo courtesy Carol A Clark/ladailypost.com Dear Friends:As I write this quarterly message, I’m recuperating from leading successive community Seders in Santa Fe for HaMakom and Los…

Dear Friends:  In the opening words of an oft-cited poem by Rabbi Alvin Fine, “Birth is a beginning, and death a destination, and life is a journey.” Using that image, I believe that Judaism can provide us with unique markers…