by Jack Moline | Sep 10, 2020 | Opinion
I have long been a fan of ritual. It is almost worth being religious just to be able to perform the rituals connected with a faith tradition. The prostration during Muslim prayer, the administration of communion during Christian worship, the devotional positions of...
by Jack Moline | Aug 10, 2020 | Opinion
I work in an office with a floor-to-ceiling window that overlooked a construction site. Among the machines that were there solely to distract me was a giant version of an immersion blender. Its purpose was to churn the ground in preparation for the excavator to scoop...
by Jack Moline | Jul 8, 2020 | Opinion
It is impossible to overestimate the impact of a traumatic experience on any individual or group. In my experience – with myself and with others – the injury that occurs when an assault takes place on body or mind has lasting and unpredictable aftereffects. I offer an...
by Jack Moline | Jun 11, 2020 | Opinion
Like every rabbi, I have attended to bereaved family members in almost every circumstance of death. Some deaths approach slowly and inevitably, like a train arriving across a plain with a distant horizon. Some deaths burst onto the scene like a balloon popping at...
by Jack Moline | May 12, 2020 | Opinion
I was half-listening to one of those breathless “true-crime” programs after a long day when the story grabbed my attention. The episode was about the tragic saga of a young man who committed suicide after being encouraged by his girlfriend. The correspondent went to...
