Rabbi Gail Fisher

Humanity evolved in a tribal setting. This seems natural; families would stick together and support one another, and a few families would...

Just over a week ago, Daf Yomi (the daily reading of the Talmud page by page) reached Shevuot 39. And on the first side of that page,...

Here is my sermon from yesterday, May 10th, on parashat Kedoshim. Critical times that we live in, all around the world, and a powerful...

I have really come to look forward to and welcome Shabbat. Some years ago, I started studying Shabbat to find how the good in it can...

Sunset tonight will bring the final day of Elul. In that spirit, I want to share with you some verses from Psalm 146. We were made in...

So many people far more eloquent than I have been expressing their deepest thoughts and feelings, so I have been holding back, hesitant...

Recently, we completed the counting of the Omer and observed the holiday of Shavuot. Counting seven weeks of seven days, or 49 days,...

I don’t have the heart for the string of national holidays coming up for us. ·         Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day, starting...

Here is a very moving prayer – it’s the Prayer of Mothers for Life and Peace. Mothers all over the world – fathers and other caring...

I'm still trying to deal with the reality of a pogrom in my lifetime, in my homeland. I'm gathering family history in an attempt to...

During a very difficult time, when there have been more tears than anything else, it gave our congregation a shining moment of hope to...

I have been emailing and posting this everywhere, so pardon the cross-posting, but I am so excited and proud! After about three years of...

I’ve been thinking for many weeks about what I wanted to share in my blog next. Lots of reading, lots of thinking, lots of ideas passing...

I was sitting in services this past Shabbat, listening to the Torah reading and then to the rabbi’s comments afterwards. We were just...

I bought a car at the end of January. Based on what I’m discovering as I reconnect with my friends, it’s very likely that you bought a...

Yesterday, the Ten Commandments were read as part of the weekly parasha, יִתְר֨וֹ. I stood there to hear them recited, symbolically...

After the intense focus of the two months of Elul and Tishrei, followed by the ebullience and even catharsis of Simchat Torah, we started...

Along with many other children, I read Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So” stories, as well as other myths of origin. How did the leopard get its...

I have not updated my blog for a while, for the very lovely reason that, having been fully vaccinated by the end of January, I have...

Bertrand Russell was a bit of a hero of mine back in my college days. As a math major, my first foray into his thinking was via Principia...