Stories and Reflections for the Common Good

This month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of an event that shook our nation to the core. A quarter century after the September

by Rabbi Nancy Kasten People of conscience live with a perpetual sense of inadequacy. We should use less water. We should drive

“His name is engraved in marble. His virtues in the hearts of those he helped to free from slavery and superstition.” [1]

by Rabbi Nancy Kasten Thomas Jefferson penned the phrase “the pursuit of happiness” as the third element of America’s creed 250 years

On Mother’s Day this year, my thoughts about my mother, mother-in-law, the mother of my children, and the mothers of my grandchildren