Easter. Not my holiday. In an earlier post I've written about how, as a Unitarian Universalist of Jewish heritage, I've taken to celebrating Christmas. Not Easter, though. Too much historical baggage there for me. The Christmas story is warm, inclusive, expansive. The poor Jewish shepherds … [Read more...]
Maccabees, Taliban, and the Real Story of Hanukkah
I wrote this "Hanukkah Q&A" ten years ago for a web course on Judaism. Things have changed a lot since then, in the world and in myself. Back then I didn't identify religiously, as I do today, as a Unitarian Universalist of Jewish heritage. But when I wrote, "there's no holy book, ours or … [Read more...]
