Do you know where you come from? Have you heard the stories of your ancestors about when and how they became citizens of this democracy? Or have you crossed the oceans and the borders personally, in your own lifetime?

     The story of Jesse, a young Jewish girl, crossing the ocean to America and landing beneath...

Each year at this time, as the drab brown grass slowly transforms into tender green shoots, as flowering perennials long since forgotten poke up daringly from the ground, as brightly feathered birds return to my feeders after a long winter away, I feel myself in the presence of miracles. I know that there are countless scientific explanations for the rebirth that...

To live in this world is a precarious task. Despite all of our knowledge, wisdom, care and caution, we cannot escape danger or risk. Even if we disregard the dangers caused by our own hands, like war, genocide, abuse and violence, there are still destructive forces which hold the power to wreak havoc and tragedy into our lives. To be human on this earth is to know that...