Rabbi James Goodman recently stepped away from Neve Shalom, the congregation he founded 29 years ago. In January, Goodman and his wife, Rabbi Susan Talve of Central Reform Congregation, lost their daughter Adina Chaya Talve-Goodman. Goodman took a leave...

I ran into one of the prophets at Schnucks. He was looking over the fresh fruit. Someone spotted him and he signed a cantaloupe with this: I love you with all my broken heart.Then he started to recite poetry. Three weeks I sat in sadness, he declaimed,...

These are the generations of Isaac.Isaac entreats God, and God is entreated. Same verb, different structure. It is one of the words we encounter in Torah that is considered prayer.The same root, transitive and reflexive. Isaac entreats God, and God is...

In September 2011, Adrienne Eigles was preparing to attend Rosh Hashanah services at Congregation Shaare Emeth.Her son Andrew was sleeping downstairs. He had been addicted to heroin and was taking monthly doses of Vivitrol to help keep him from relapsing. It...

Robin Hirsch is an artist in her own right, having earned a bachelor's in fine arts in photography from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1985. When pressed about how she expresses her artistic passion these days, she points to the paintings and multimedia...