“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness,” Eleanor Roosevelt once said. So with in mind, I was honored and excited to be invited for the White House Chanukah Party on the the eighth day – to pay my respects to first families past and present. There were many highlights, including meeting many friends from […]
Ever hear of the Rokia studies? Professor Paul Slovic from University of Oregon did a series of studies a few years ago in which participants were shown a photo of a starving 7 yr old girl from Mali, Africa named Rokia. They were told that Rokia is desperately poor and faces the threat of […]
“Illuminate the welders in shipyards with the brilliance of their torches. Let the crane operator lift up his arm for joy. Let elevators creak and speak, ascending and descending in awe. Let the mercy of the flower’s direction beckon in the eye. Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness — to seek the […]
by R Sharon. What do you do if the sacred stories that your family or your people tell to one another generation after generation turn out to be a bit more, well… complicated than you were taught as a child?Dive just beneath the latkes and dreidls and you’ll bump into some grim truths about the heroic Macabbees […]
This Chanukkah R’ Sharon Brous of IKAR (LA) and Amichai Lau-Lavie of Lab/Shul (NY) collaborate to create a virtual ritual upgrade toolkit getting us to shine our light with more purpose and intention. For 8 nights, illlumin8 will instigate conversations as the candles burn, so we can elaborate, recalibrate and celebrate! Reanim8/Invigor8: Night 4 One of my favorite teachers, […]
