Tag: religion
Religion: Roots and branches
With Memorial Day just a few weeks ago and Independence Day right around the corner, this time of year we often think about those...
Rabbi Mendel Liberow: How to create a violence-free world
In Uvalde, one person changed the world.
A single individual—whose motives remain unknown—chose to commit a heinous act, and young lives full of promise ended...
Religion: Thoughts and prayers
I was in Chicago on May 24, celebrating my granddaughter’s 5th birthday. It was going to be a quick three-day trip, but I ended...
Religion: Understanding fear
Our world is filled with fearful people. There are some things which we need to fear, and many things which are concocted fears, but...
Religion: On the shoulders of trailblazers
Forty years ago I had one of my earliest “calls” or moments imagining my future as a rabbi.
I grew up in New Jersey in...
Religion: Memorial Day—And we remember them
For any who have served overseas in times of war or received news of the death of a loved one from such a conflict,...
Religion: Walking the El Camino
I have just returned from walking the El Camino, an 80-mile pilgrimage of seven days from Vigo to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain....
Religion: In defense of religion
It happened in the ‘70s, driving in my Camaro, I heard it for the first time, the song that would become iconic not just...
Religion: What is interfaith work?
Hans Kung is a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian and author who served on the faculty of the University of Tübingen in 1960, and served as...
Guest view: Community suppers and signs of hope
In 2006, if a person or family was hungry, there was nowhere in Morgan Hill for them to go for a hot meal (except...
