God Bless America. 2 God bless America Ideals that I love Through the gas and the glass In the night of our broken laws From our cities to the White House To the police stations Burned and charred God bless America Land filled with scars God bless America Its streets...
I Can’t Breathe I can’t breathe, The knee of oppression Is on my neck. I can’t breathe, The air of my city Is filled with tear gas. I can’t breathe, I am filled with rage And the smoke of burning buildings. I can’t breathe Because the air is filled with...
I was amazed to learn earlier this week that over 600 people had viewed and liked my posting on Facebook of Rabbi Rick Jacobs’, President of the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ), message that Reform synagogues will stay closed for the foreseeable future in response to COVID-19. “The saving of...
We can all agree that experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic has been a unique, unprecedented, and disconcerting experience. Nearly every aspect of life as we knew has been significantly disrupted. School, work, travel, sports, culture, and faith all have been re-tracked, sidelined or even shut down. It has only been a...
In many places, mostly prematurely in my opinion, people are talking about “opening up” America again. We don’t need to get into that debate here, but I do think we can begin to speculate on what the new normal is going to look like after COVID-19 is relegated to the...
For those of us who grew up in the Reform movement or joined it during the course of our adult journey, Grant Us Peace is a familiar and much beloved prayer both because of its English language text and its various musical interpretations. What is less known is the surprising...
By the time this eKI arrives for you to read it, Passover will be over but what many are calling the 11th Plague will still be raging. We will still be quarantined and the serious discussion of trend curves and economic restarts will continue to rage. Of course, the Coronavirus...
Ordinary Citizens: Lessons from the Pandemic of 2020 Many of you may remember Stephen E. Ambrose’s book, Citizen Soldiers, which came out in 1997. At one level, it traced the history of World War II from the beaches of Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the ultimate defeat...
By now, it is clear that the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the entire world is changing life as we know it. It is less clear, but certainly as true, that this experience will have long term effects on how we live on this planet after the pandemic is over. Someone once...
We are living in unprecedented times. Not just us at KI or in America but in the whole world. Not since World War II has there been a global situation which has affected everyone on the planet in a personal way. By far our biggest challenge is medical and scientific....
