Everything, Everywhere, All on Yom Kippur / Yom Kippur Morning 5784

“I’m here to tell you: every rejection, every disappointment, has led you here, to this moment. Don’t let anything distract you from it.” These are the words which welcome Evelyn, the character played by Michelle Yeoh in the film Everything, Everywhere, All at Once into her new responsibility. In the film, which swept this past …

Barbie, Chat GPT, and Being Human / Kol Nidrei 5784

She didn’t have to choose that Birkenstock. She could have kept her high heels on – maybe her feet would have gone back to normal, eventually. She could have stayed in her perfect, pink, world, with her perfect dreamhouse, blissfully innocent. But in this summer’s blockbuster, Barbie chose the other shoe. She chose to venture …

In the Image: Rosh Hashanah Morning 5780

Rabbi Beth Kalisch, Beth David Reform Congregation1 Tishrei 5780 / September 30, 2019 And on the 6th day of creation, after that first primordial light had been spoken into being, after water had been separated from water to create heaven and earth, after seed-bearing plants and the fish of the sea and the birds of …