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Intermarriage Positioning
August 10, 2026
“My what an ugly man you are!”
And he retorted, “why don’t you tell my Creator, ‘what an ugly creation this is!’”
No, this was not a clip from a 1980s comedy. It was a scene from the 1800 year old book called the Babylonian Talmud. Obviously the retort made clear that no one should insult the humanity of another. This is the kind of information a person should learn an internalise in an elementary school.
Intermarriage Positioning
August 3, 2026
“What do your parents think about you marrying someone who’s not Jewish?” her soon to be father-in-law asked her.
Without skipping a beat, she retorted, “Probably just about what you think about your son marrying someone who is."
Oooh. Zinger. Good one! The soon to be bride was my mother. The soon to be father-in-law was my grandfather. They were talking about my mom and my dad’s interfaith relationship.
Intermarriage Positioning
“What do your parents think about you marrying someone who’s not Jewish?” her soon to be father-in-law asked her. Without skipping a beat, she retorted, “Probably just about what you think about your son marrying someone who is." Oooh. Zinger. Good one! The soon to be bride was my mother. The soon to be father-in-law was my grandfather. They were talking about my mom and my dad’s interfaith relationship. You see, since the time of Romeo and Juliet, and really much, mu
Aug 3
Love is a Fingerprint
Does Jewish tradition celebrate love? YES! Romantic love is celebrated tomorrow night with the holiday of Tu B’Av. It was a day when couples would pair up and the community would celebrate. Fitting, then, that I officiated a great celebration of love with a wedding yesterday, and will marry another wonderful couple Friday. But in Judaism, love is also celebrated as the love of family and the joy of gathering in community. That’s why we often begin services with the singin
Jul 27
Global Connections
Newsletter July 20th, 2025. Together, we're #keepingitsacred... "No way!" "What are the chances?" "Bingo!! I’ll connect you... now" "I have goosebumps! This is a transcript right from a text conversation I had this past weekend with one of our awesome members, Kim. You may remember that she recently moved to be with her new wife, Stacy and family in Canada. So, when I heard another of our families had just moved there, I reached out to her to see if she’d like to connect.
Jul 19
Intermarriage Positioning
“What do your parents think about you marrying someone who’s not Jewish?” her soon to be father-in-law asked her. Without skipping a beat, she retorted, “Probably just about what you think about your son marrying someone who is." Oooh. Zinger. Good one! The soon to be bride was my mother. The soon to be father-in-law was my grandfather. They were talking about my mom and my dad’s interfaith relationship. You see, since the time of Romeo and Juliet, and really much, mu
Rabbi Heather Miller
7 min read
Love is a Fingerprint
Does Jewish tradition celebrate love? YES! Romantic love is celebrated tomorrow night with the holiday of Tu B’Av. It was a day when couples would pair up and the community would celebrate. Fitting, then, that I officiated a great celebration of love with a wedding yesterday, and will marry another wonderful couple Friday. But in Judaism, love is also celebrated as the love of family and the joy of gathering in community. That’s why we often begin services with the singin
Rabbi Heather Miller
2 min read
Global Connections
Newsletter July 20th, 2025. Together, we're #keepingitsacred... "No way!" "What are the chances?" "Bingo!! I’ll connect you... now" "I have goosebumps! This is a transcript right from a text conversation I had this past weekend with one of our awesome members, Kim. You may remember that she recently moved to be with her new wife, Stacy and family in Canada. So, when I heard another of our families had just moved there, I reached out to her to see if she’d like to connect.
Rabbi Heather Miller
18 min read
Taylor & Travis & Tzedakah
Newsletter July 6th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... What's Jewish about Disability PRIDE month? A seemingly secular celebration, actually holds great Jewish significance. Let’s learn about this holiday from our cherished KITS member, Wendy Stiver: --July is Disability Pride Month! Although not as widely known or celebrated as LGBTQIA Pride , Disability Pride is an important, hard-won recognition of the contributions made by, and challenges faced by people with dis
Rabbi Heather Miller
13 min read
Disability PRIDE!
Newsletter July 6th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... What's Jewish about Disability PRIDE month? A seemingly secular celebration, actually holds great Jewish significance. Let’s learn about this holiday from our cherished KITS member, Wendy Stiver: --July is Disability Pride Month! Although not as widely known or celebrated as LGBTQIA Pride , Disability Pride is an important, hard-won recognition of the contributions made by, and challenges faced by people with dis
Rabbi Heather Miller
13 min read
America TODAY!
Newsletter June 29th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... At this time of year, my ear worm is Neil Diamond’s “America”: “Far, We've been traveling farWithout a homeBut not without a starFreeOnly want to be freeWe huddle closeHang on to a dream On the boats and on the planesThey're coming to AmericaNever looking back againThey're coming to America…” My family and I would gather yearly to watch our local fireworks show to celebrate America on July 4th, and inevitably
Rabbi Heather Miller
17 min read
Singing for Our Lives
Newsletter June 22nd, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... “No homosexuals will go to Heaven.” You know I didn’t say this. Not only because I’m queer, or because I’m Jewish and the Heaven/Hell binary isn’t our theology. But also because we at Keeping It Sacred don’t use religious scriptures to exclude or condemn. Especially not to shame people who express love across the spectrum. These words were scrawled across the wall of a local United Methodist Church that has a Q
Rabbi Heather Miller
14 min read
Savoring Gameplay
Newsletter June 15th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... "Are you glad you missed it?" I asked my kid after he missed playing in a baseball tournament this weekend where his team lost three games, each by a wide margin. "No, mama! I am not there to win. I am there to play with my friends," he quickly replied. I am so glad my son loves the experience of joining a team, becoming friends, building a gameplan, and giving it their all-- regardless of if his team wins. Of
Rabbi Heather Miller
14 min read
ReTREAT YOURSELF!
Newsletter June 8th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... This past weekend, I attended the “ReTREAT Yourself!” gathering hosted by Adamah. This shabbaton was funded by generous donors inviting Jewish professionals to attend, for free, a weekend of self care. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I knew I needed to go. Fifty Jewish professionals from every sector arrived at Camp Ramah in Ojai, CA ready for some respite from the unique pressures of working as professional Je
Rabbi Heather Miller
18 min read
ONLY TO BE THERE
Newsletter June 1st, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Do you have a sacred place? A place to simultaneously reflect and contemplate the future. A place to exhale, and also simultaneously, a space that sends a jolt of electricity through your body when you visit? Some of my sacred places include: Standing at the threshold of my grandparents’ former home front door. Bowing at the foot of the Western Wall. Sitting in the upper deck behind home plate at Dodger Stadium.
Rabbi Heather Miller
17 min read
Waging Peace
Newsletter May 18th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Houses of worship are meeting places of community; intergenerational spaces to lift up lifes' greatest joys, to mourn the deepest sorrows. They are places to offer gratitude for life itself, and to mark time and the seasons with treasured community. They are also places to explore sacred texts, define values, and encourage one another's purpose in life. News of a terrifying shooting at a sacred house of worship,
Rabbi Heather Miller
25 min read
Unity in CommUNITY
Newsletter May 4th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... In my household, some people prefer fencing and equestrian activities like jumping. These are individual sports where one person usually tries to beat their personal best or institutional records. The rewards can feel personal. But then there are those of us who like baseball, basketball, and rugby. These are team sports where groups of people have to execute plays where everyone’s part is crucial. The rewards ar
Rabbi Heather Miller
14 min read
The Beat of Our Own Drum
Newsletter May 4th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... I have noticed that for so much of my life, I have worked hard to “fit in.” But whenever that has happened, I have found it comes at a cost. Whether in the form of submitting to peer pressure to engage in an awful senior prank in high school that compromised my values, or the simple the pain of blisters on feet from wearing heels. Sometimes trying to fit in is painful. Being the “weird” one or “odd man out” or t
Rabbi Heather Miller
16 min read
Hearts Holding it All
Newsletter April 20th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... “My parents who survived the Holocaust would be appalled at what is going on in Israel right now,” a man I just met confided in me. In speaking with many of you, I know many of us feel this way. Whether we feel appalled that the Jewish people are once again targets of antisemitism and under constant threat of physical violence in Israel and nearly everywhere in the world, or feel appalled by the racist and ext
Rabbi Heather Miller
17 min read
Intersections of Hatred
Newsletter April 13th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... I thought I knew a lot about the persecution of Jews throughout history. My own family feverishly fled the pogroms in Russia, my great grandmother even lying down with dead bodies on the frozen street to escape being killed herself. I went to a Jewish day school we learned about WWII and commemorated the Holocaust yearly. In youth group we went to see Schindler’s List in the theatre. In college, I majored in Pea
Rabbi Heather Miller
18 min read
Seeing and Being Seen
Newsletter March 30th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... When I lived in New York, people assumed I was a vegan from Brooklyn. In truth, I was a meat-eater who lived downtown. It always puzzled me (and still does) but I guess they thought “lesbian + progressive + rabbinical student = vegan from Brooklyn”?! I don’t know. But I guess that’s just it. When people stereotype and try to fill in the blanks they don’t actually know about you, especially when they get it wron
Rabbi Heather Miller
21 min read
The Room Where It Happened
Newsletter March 23rd, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... As a descendant of Aaron Burr, yes the guy who tied with Thomas Jefferson for the presidency before Alexander Hamilton smeared his name and the house elected Jefferson; not to mention that incident at Weekawken, NJ), reluctantly I watched Hamilton (the play). And there’s that really catchy song, “The Room Where It Happens,” all about the importance of being there, participant in history. Many times in my life,
Rabbi Heather Miller
24 min read
Shark-Infested Waters
Newsletter March 16th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Yesterday, I spent the night at the home of my high school best friend, Maayan. Earlier that day, her 2 year old daughter had learned how to swim, and I was the one who got to tell her how awesome of a swimmer her mom is-- I personally saw her swim across the San Francisco Bay in 2019. When I showed her the picture above, her eyes widened. My heart jumps when I see this picture, too. I feel the pang of fear tha
Rabbi Heather Miller
20 min read
Reflecting on International Women's Day
Newsletter March 9th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Today, I officiated the funeral of an amazing matriarch whose family lovingly called her “M.” She was a beautiful, determined, and affirming human, encouraging her daughter and granddaughters to have gumption (or chutzpah in Yiddish), style, and a healthy dose of mischief. In fact, she made me promise to put in my newsletter a little joke one of her granddaughters made – “Just like men, women also remove chin hair
Rabbi Heather Miller
15 min read
Holding It All Together
Newsletter March 2nd, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Purim is here! This weekend we celebrated the fun holiday that colors the whole month of Adar as one filled with joy- it is called z’man simchateinu: The Season of our Joy! We baked hamantaschen and some wore costumes and got silly and sang songs including Max Weiner’s Father's Purim version of Don’t Worry, Be Happy. Some communities observe the custom to get drunk* so that they can’t tell the evil character in th
Rabbi Heather Miller
11 min read
Delicious Mystery
Newsletter February 24th, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... It takes about a year to wrote a Torah scroll. There are over 600,000 letters to write by hand using a reed or feather, taking great care to make sure each line and curve is formed properly. Of any part of the letter is missing or malformed, the ink from the water-based letter must be gingerly scratched off the oil based klaf (specially treated animal hide), and rewritten. Unless it is a letter forming God’s n
Rabbi Heather Miller
13 min read
Leader-full Legacies
Newsletter February 17th, 2026 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... This morning we learned of the peaceful passing of civil rights leader, Rev. Jesse Jackson. His son, Jesse Jackson, Jr., has shared that he would like his father to be remembered first and foremost as someone who cared for others. Indeed, in his life, he demonstrated care for those working for civil rights for the Black community in coalition with those from all racial and ethnic groups, care for those in the
Rabbi Heather Miller
16 min read
Painting the Picture
Newsletter February 9th, 2026 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... There's a public speaking motto: "Don't tell them, show them." Showing people what you're talking about helps people's imaginations understand what you're trying to convey. Last night, Benito “Bad Bunny” Antonio Martinez Ocasio masterfully showed every one of the estimated 135M+ viewers of his Super Bowl Halftime Show a blissful vision of a utopian future he is working towards. (View it HERE). His musical and v
Rabbi Heather Miller
15 min read
Sometimes It Doesn't Rain
Newsletter February 2nd, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Yesterday was my birthday, and it didn’t rain! It felt like a little miracle considering this has only happened a handful of times in my 47 years. Usually, like clockwork, the calendar page turns to February 1, and the skies open up and pour.But not yesterday. And I almost didn’t know what to do with myself. I was able to enjoy a delicious breakfast by the sea with my family, sitting outside as the high tide oc
Rabbi Heather Miller
17 min read
When Rest Isn't Restful
Newsletter January 26, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Sometimes, I just can’t sleep. Usually when I am stressed or overthinking a situation. Sometimes because of something that happened during the day or something that triggered a deep memory of something unpleasant in the past. A real rest is supposed to help calm and rejuvenate. It’s a time when the body repairs and resets. When I can’t sleep, I can lie in bed for hours but rise in the morning groggy, listless,
Rabbi Heather Miller
16 min read
Until We Are All Free
Newsletter January 19, 2026 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month and in honor of that, our beloved Keeping It Sacred member and expert in trafficking, Wendy Stiver,* has written the following to raise awareness on the subject. Today is also the birthday of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and he was dedicated to lifting people out of oppression into the fullness of human dignity. In his honor do we also share these rema
Rabbi Heather Miller
16 min read
Deep Fried Oreo
Newsletter January 12, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Have you ever had a deep-fried Oreo cookie? I haven't, but was offered one at the Mississippi State Fair in October of 2005. I was there with a minyan of fellow rabbinical students who had flown down to help with the Hurricane Katrina Relief effort of the Union for Reform Judaism. While there, our hosts summoned the best of Jewish and Southern hospitality as we worked for a week unloading truckloads of goods dona
Rabbi Heather Miller
17 min read
No Pain, No Gain
Newsletter January 5, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... There is a rabbi named Ben Hey Hey. Yes, that’s his name, and his teachings from 1800 years ago were recorded in the Mishnah. And he said: “According to the pain is the reward." (Mishnah Pirkei Avot 5:23) Sounds like “no pain, no gain,” to me! But I don’t think he was talking about exercise routines. In fact, 1,000 years ago, the great rabbi named Maimonides expounded upon this saying. He insisted that Ben Hey Hey
Rabbi Heather Miller
13 min read
New Year Predictions
Newsletter December 29, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... So, how are you feeling about the new year? I mean, we are about to be in 2026. It’s pretty surreal, isn't it? I just read an article on CNN.com that talked about a 1998 study out of Cornell University’s Roper Center. That study asked participants to predict the then distant future: what would 2025 look like? The results? Very interesting— some right predictions, some not so much. Read the study HERE to see
Rabbi Heather Miller
11 min read
Ripples Across Oceans
Newsletter December 14, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... The moment I stepped off the plane and jumped into the rental car, I headed to the one destination I’d been dreaming of for 34 years—Bondi Beach. Bondi Beach was the top destination I had wanted to visit ever since writing a report on Australia in 7th grade. I knew it as a place of surfing and dining, a place of shark sightings and the “other” side of the Pacific Ocean. And it didn’t disappoint. It was a beaut
Rabbi Heather Miller
13 min read
The Veil
Newsletter December 8, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Today is Leo's birthday! And what an awe-some experience it was to witness his first breaths, the first moments he opened his eyes and found me there to welcome him to the world. After the doctor, of course! I remember distinctly my first words upon seeing him, after a huge gasp, were, "He looks just like Melissa!" It was so incredible. Yesterday, I replayed the video footage from his first 20 minutes alive and
Rabbi Heather Miller
14 min read
World AIDS Day
Newsletter December 1, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... The US Government doesn’t want anyone to commemorate World AIDS Day. The State Department issued an email last week to its grantees instructing them to, “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches or other public-facing messaging.” But we will commemorate it here at Keeping It Sacred. We will because our deeply held Je
Rabbi Heather Miller
14 min read
Daily Thanks Challenge
Newsletter November 24, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... In Judaism, Thanksgiving is every day. One of my (many) favorite teachings involves the rabbinic insistence that every person express thanks no fewer than 100 times per day. This seems overwhelming at first. But, then we see the rabbis' thinking. They figure that each service has, built into the prayers, an expression of thanks 33 times. And, since there are 3 services each day, that takes us to 99 expressions o
Rabbi Heather Miller
14 min read
Living Our Values
Newsletter November 17, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Our community is alive with the power of change. Positive change. This week alone, I attended a film premiere for American Solitaire, starring our amazing member, Gilbert Owour. The film ends with a montage of the impactful work that the organization RAWTools is doing, literally beating guns into gardening tools. In doing so they take guns out of circulation. This work is inspired by the prophetic imperative of
Rabbi Heather Miller
14 min read
Love Won Again
Newsletter November 10, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Ten years ago, I held my 1 month old baby on a dais of other clergy and laity who united to celebrate the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision that affirmed same-sex marriage on a federal level. We were united across geography, ethnicity, and religion, in favor of love. (I'm second from left in the photo above, with my baby).Today, love won again. The Supreme Court had been faced with the opportunity
Rabbi Heather Miller
19 min read
Overnight Cancer Survivor
Newsletter November 3, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... It all happened so fast. My pathology report came back positive for Basal Cell Carcinoma at 10:30am Tuesday morning. Wednesday morning by 9:15am the cancer was removed, with clear margins, from my face. Just in time for Halloween, I had my own Herman Munster 1” incision stitched up on my right cheek under my eye. For two weeks, I will sport a bandage. For you TLC fans of the 1990s, instead of “Lisa Left-Eye Lo
Rabbi Heather Miller
19 min read
You Gotta Be You
Newsletter October 27, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... “To thine own self, be true,” wrote Shakespeare in Hamlet. “If I fail, if I succeed, at least I lived as I believed,” sung George Benson before Whitney Houston made it popular in The Greatest Love of All.“You gotta be you, and only you, babe,” insisted Salt N’ Pepa in one of my favorite songs of all time, Expression.What do these famous quotes have in common? A human desire to be true to who we are. To be authent
Rabbi Heather Miller
4 min read
Go To Yourself
Newsletter October 20, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... What happens when you decide to chart your own path? What happens when you decide to lift your head out of the ocean of expectations the world has for you and you direct your own course? What happens? When anyone does this, they thrive. Now, it's not easy at first. Certainly. But, it creates the deepest sense of satisfaction and purpose. I think part of it is that when a person follows that still small voice
Rabbi Heather Miller
2 min read
Redeeming The Captives
Newsletter October 13, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... This daily morning blessing in the siddur has new resonance for us today. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheynu Melech HaOlam, matir asurim. Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Sovereign of the Universe, who sets the captives free! This morning Israel time, the remaining 20 living hostages were freed, and the ceasefire seems to be holding. For many of us, releasing those held captive feels like loosening a knot we hav
Rabbi Heather Miller
3 min read
What We've Built Together
Newsletter October 8, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... This past Saturday's gathering for our 5 year Keeping It Sacred Anniversary was a dream. An absolute dream. It will take me time to process how special it was and so I will include bits from the gathering in the next couple of newsletters. Stay tuned! Not only did we have a full house present in person in Studio City, CA, but we also enjoyed the participation of so many of our beloved members online. We heard fr
Rabbi Heather Miller
26 min read
Navigating These Times
Newsletter September 29, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... A funny thing is happening in Los Angeles Wednesday night. It is true that members of the Jewish community will be gathering in sacred spaces around the city to welcome in the holiest day of the year. But there will also be major traffic delays on the 405 freeway known as the busiest and most congested freeway in the United States. This is the season of repair work which will close up to two lanes on the maj
Rabbi Heather Miller
2 min read
More of That, Please!
Newsletter September 22, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... In the secular new year, there’s a tradition where people do on New Year’s Day what they hope to do for the rest of the year. For many, that’s gathering with family and friends, and doing acts of care for the world. I love this tradition and I think it’s a great practice for us to think about during the new Jewish year as well. What are the things you want more of in the Jewish new year? What are those th
Rabbi Heather Miller
2 min read
Overzealousness
Newsletter September 15, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... The shofar, originally made from a ram’s horn, was meant to remind listeners of the classic biblical story of the Akedah. The Akedah story is the one where Abraham was called by God to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on top of Mount Moriah. And what happened? Just as he was about to slaughter the boy, knife-wielding hand raised, a voice called out from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he answered, “Here I am.”
Rabbi Heather Miller
3 min read
Our Village
Newsletter September 8, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... A Special Message from our KITS Digital Marketing Director, Molly Flanagan: I am so grateful to be celebrating this High Holy Day season with all of you. As we prepare for these sacred days, I wanted to take you behind the scenes to share just how many hands and hearts help bring our celebrations to life. Truly, it takes a village! In addition to the visionary leadership of Rabbi Heather Miller, we are honor
Rabbi Heather Miller
2 min read
Labor Day
Newsletter September 1, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... For many, Labor Day is a day of rest. And it should also be a day of appreciation for the rights that those in the labor movement have worked to secure so that laborers could rest. Including big wins like the 8 hour work day, minimum wage, child labor laws, and safer working conditions. Maternity leave, paternity leave, or paid family and medical leave are all increasing in availability. But sadly, the facts sho
Rabbi Heather Miller
2 min read
Hear Our Voices
Newsletter August 25, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Happy Rosh Chodesh— that means Happy New Month! I know, it is August 25, but actually it IS also the first of the month. The first of the Hebrew month of Elul. Which means we are just one month away from the New Jewish Year— Rosh Hashanah! At Keeping It Sacred, we always start our new month with the exploration and affirmation of justice. We host a monthly Rosh Chodesh Racial Justice book review. And, today, I a
Rabbi Heather Miller
3 min read
Happy Anniversary!
Newsletter August 18, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... This is a VERY special week! On Thursday, Keeping It Sacred officially turns FIVE years old! Five years of our very special global progressive Jewish community dedicated to exploring texts, standing for justice, and holding sacred space for one another. Five years of accessible, relevant, and empowering programming for anyone across the world interested in participating. Just last Thursday, among our participant
Rabbi Heather Miller
2 min read
Back to Jewish
Newsletter August 11, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... Our family is so intermarried, we are back to Jewish again! This is a fun fact about my family, and I proved it to my kids this past weekend when our French Jewish cousins, who I hadn’t seen in person since 2005, visited us in California. They are (follow this): my Unitarian dad’s, Christian Scientist wife’s, Jewish nieces and nephews. And what did we talk about? The state of being Jewish in our respective co
Rabbi Heather Miller
3 min read
The Love Sandwich
Newsletter August 4, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... I’ve got a question for you: if I asked you “how does God show love to you, and how do you show Love to God?”— What would you answer? And when I say God, I don’t mean an old man in the sky with a beard. I mean God the Divine Energy, Author of Life, the Creator of Time and Space, or however you describe the Life Force in the world. The Indescribable One Without End. How do you express love to That and how do you
Rabbi Heather Miller
3 min read
Lamentations
Newsletter July 28, 2025 Together, we're #keepingitsacred... In my first year of rabbinical school, I took a class on Zionism with a very special professor. It wasn’t just a history class, it was led as an exploration of what the Zionist enterprise means to us: rabbinical students and cantorial students and Jewish educators. The biggest takeaway was that there were many approaches to the enterprise. My professor allowed students the space to wrestle, critique, affirm and chal
Rabbi Heather Miller
4 min read
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