Resources

For decades, our culture has been focused on making some kind of “resolution” or change with the coming of the new calendar year. For some, this can be a helpful strategy to refocus and “get back [...]

An excerpt from Rabbi Yonatan Rosensweig’s downloadable High Holidays Mental Health Reader The word Teshuva means returning. Man returns to Hashem (G-d) and is sheltered in his shadow. Throughout [...]

There are so many others out there who, like me, are suffering in silence. You are never alone. I live with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder. As a rabbi, cantor, actor and author, [...]

Returning to work or school can be a trigger for anxiety. During this time of year, many people may experience mood fluctuations. This is especially true since the pandemic has kept many people [...]

In 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States. That represents an increase of 30 percent from the prior year and makes [...]

Love seems to flourish in the spring, just as the green peeks out beneath months of snow, and flowers begin to burst forth. And as the spring bleeds into summer, the importance of tending to and [...]

On Tisha B’av, Jewish communities across the globe remember and lament the destruction of the first and second Temples in Jerusalem through a series of mourning practices. These practices, while [...]

Shavuot, or the “Festival of Weeks” in Hebrew (חג השבועות‎, Chag HaShavuot‎), occurs fifty days after the second day of Passover. Although the holiday’s origins lie in the ancient grain harvest [...]

Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew (פֶּסַח‎), is a major Jewish holiday that commemorates the biblical story of the enslaved children of Israel leaving ancient Egypt. From the most secular to the most [...]

I have always associated the start of spring with that of a new beginning. Some might argue their new beginning is when the ball drops at midnight at the start of a new year. But springtime has [...]