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Isaac Luria

Why I Still Play Basketball (even though I probably shouldn’t)

At the first game, Rabbi Marc had us do names and a prayer for the body before we played. You could see from the shifting feet and eyes…

Jan 2, 2020

Jan 2, 2020

Betty made my year

On Shabbat, I was sitting on our porch wearing my kippah, enjoying the gorgeous weather and waiting for a bunch of guests to arrive.

Nov 5, 2018

Nov 5, 2018

i finally got up the courage to ask

this big white rocky mountain of a Tennessee man for a cigarette

Nov 17, 2016

Nov 17, 2016

Join the Resistance

18 months ago, Donald Trump wandered into America politics like an angry-drunk New York Post headline. Now, he is our President-elect.

Nov 10, 2016

Join the Resistance

Nov 10, 2016

Who is anti-occupation activist Simone Zimmerman?

I recently did an extended audio and transcript of an audio interview with an inspiring figure of the emerging Jewish movement IfNotNow…

Jul 25, 2016

Who is anti-occupation activist Simone Zimmerman?

Jul 25, 2016

Taking on “Empire”: An answer to our paralysis

As violence builds and echoes and reverberates on our streets and in our collective psyche, I’ve found myself paralyzed by inaction and…

Jul 19, 2016

Jul 19, 2016

How Exodus really started

As Passover approached this year, there was something about the Exodus text that had bothered me for years. How exactly did the Israelites…

Apr 27, 2016

Apr 27, 2016

Jewish Daily Forward OpEd

Wrote this up for the Forward on the Simone Zimmerman / Bernie Sanders / Israel debacle.

Apr 26, 2016

Apr 26, 2016

What I’m reading: April 2016

Choosing Our Religion: The Spiritual Lives of American’s Nones, by Elizabeth Drescher. Just started, but excited to hear another way of…

Apr 26, 2016

Apr 26, 2016

Productivity tips from a dad of three who cares deeply about his work and family

I recently got an email from a movement friend asking me for my “productivity tips,” and I wrote back a long note which is summarized…

Apr 26, 2016

Apr 26, 2016

Isaac Luria

Isaac Luria

Jewish spiritual change-maker, dad of three, Brooklyn-based in Brooklyn. Work at Nathan Cummings Foundation. Views here my own.

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