Mar 9, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
I believe we are doing or students a great disservice by designating any club in Manichaean language. Gay-straight alliance indicates that sexuality is binary-you are either gay or straight. That is not true. Human beings live on a “sexual” continuum between absolute...
Mar 9, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
When a child is buried, their dreams, hopes and aspirations are placed in the casket with them. But their souls, and the dreams, hopes and aspirations their parents had for them remain here, with the living. Those dreams, hopes and aspirations rest on the shoulders of...
Feb 14, 2015 | Religion / Spirituality
I remember while growing up hearing stories about churches. Don’t go in them. Just walk by and turn away. Turn your head away and spit. What did I know? I do know, now, but I still love churches.And I enjoy my time with my Christian friends and family....
Jul 3, 2014 | Religion / Spirituality
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel Somewhere along the way to political correctness nirvana, God and religion became four letter words. Western philosophy has developed a...
May 8, 2014 | Religion / Spirituality
Mother's day is around the corner. For too many children whose families are restructuring all they want for the day to be happy is their father. They want their dream back. They want to be able to love both parents equally without guilt. We owe it to our children...
Nov 25, 2013 | Religion / Spirituality
I read that there is a spiritual connection between the name of the loved one and her soul. One of my granddaughters carries the name Yehudit. She is named for a dear friend of her father; a woman of beauty, laughter, inner strength, bravery and love, who died too...