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Jane and I, engaged to be married in about six months, are driving in her small white Honda Accord. We’re going from our newly-purchased home

I want to teach you how to cultivate patience in one aspect of your life. Actually, I’d like to teach you to have patience with

The route the dogs and I take on our three-times-a-day, once-around-the-block walks is governed by the presence of other people walking their dogs. My guys

For my twenty-fifth birthday, January 8, 1995, I decide to celebrate by getting stoned for the first time. I figure it will be fun. A

End of summer, 1994. A hot classroom on Hebrew Union’s downtown Los Angeles campus.  A dozen of us just back from our first-year of rabbinical school

December 2024 Portland, Oregon My family is out and I’m putting away items that have accumulated in the dish drainer. I’m on the phone with

On New Year’s Day, David D. Sicher died, becoming what one in Judaism euphemistically refers to as ‘of blessed memory.‘ As Jewish tradition emphasizes a

Hello. I’m Rabbi Brian. This is a new year, and this is the new, first 2025 issue of The 77% Weekly Newsletter. History!!!Where did the

  To play you’ll need: a person’s name an annoying thing that person does an idiom like “bang your head against a wall.” — _____ (person’s

  Jerusalem, 1993 Rabbi Ben Hollander stands at the front of the classroom in a wardrobe from the 1970s. You can tell, based on a

“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am

Since the election, I’ve been having a hard time. (You might be having a hard time too.)   Please see me. I am disappointed, exhausted,

We don’t know how things are going to go. And it’s terrifying. Funny thing to keep in mind: the terrifying things of the past never

Please set an alarm for 8:30pm. When it goes off, answer the following: Was it a good enough day? (y/n) The answer might be no.

Despite the possibility of even our own selves not believing it, we are enough. We are enough. Despite the possibility of even you not believing