What Have You Done For Me Lately?
It never fails. At first we feel gratitude for gifts and blessings, but memory fades and gratitude drains. We’re not ingrates, but recall and attention are limited: life naturally gets […]
Entries by R' Evan Krame
God Loves You – Now Change
Happy 2016. January is the time when we often make New Year’s resolutions about eating less, getting more exercise, reading more, decreasing stress, volunteering more, spending less, being more intentional, […]
I DO – do you?
As a lawyer, I have a particular way to read Torah. Let me share with you a line from this week’s Torah portion and see if you hear it the same […]
Everything Old is New Again
It’s that time again – retrospectives on the secular year now ending, Top 10 lists, New Years resolutions, new calendars, the Baby New Year myth become childhood cartoon, renewed diets and […]
Repairing Relationships When a Parent Dies
Reconciliation within families is not always easy and yet the death of a parent often provides the opportunity to do the hard work of putting the past in the past […]
Going Down, Down, Down
Now is the season of our depression. This is true both of the wintertime blues and of the corresponding Torah reading when Joseph’s family goes down to Egypt. Literally, the […]
Becoming the Light
“Hope springs eternal,” wrote essayist Alexander Pope. This sentiment forms the spiritual core of Chanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, and (not coincidentally) also this week’s Torah portion, Miketz. Hope, by its […]
Left Behind
Refugees around the globe are not just a hot political topic but a moral challenge to us all. Today’s headlines represent a historic constant about the nature of those who […]
Thankful for Family
This is the time of year that people either look forward to or dread seeing their families with Thanksgiving, Hanukah and Christmas in the holiday line-up for the next month. […]
Every Rock: The Art of Awe
Every Jewish house of worship echoes the iconic scene in this week’s Torah portion (Vayetze). Jacob takes a rock and places it under his head for a pillow. He dreams […]
Evan J. Krame was ordained as a rabbi by the