Rabbi Gordon’s Blog Page

Around 2:30pm, Monday June 24, 2013 I just want to be treated as a family like any other family. We’ve been waiting at Adirondack Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for over an hour because they looked at us, with different last names and skin tone, and asked if I was his legal guardian.  I’d already signed all the […]

    Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God” (Exodus 8:15)           Then Israel saw the great hand which God had used against the Egyptians… (Exodus 14:31) As Barry Goldman commented, “Doodling aimlessly?” In response to a comment below, I want to clarify:  I am absolutely NOT saying […]

The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, […]

.אחרי מות, קדשים אמר This week’s double Torah portion: Acharey Mot-K’doshim. Next week, Emor. Put them together as a sentence and you have: “After death, holiness speak.” This week there’s been a lot of death in our country. Boston’s not so far away and a lot of us have connections there. The explosion in Texas […]

There’s a little bell singing from my daughter’s room tonight.  We got presents today, books for each of us, and she got The Velveteen Rabbit. So I read it before bed, and then I said, “I have something to show you.”  I rummaged around in my top drawer, and wondered for a while if I’d remembered […]