It Takes a Village
by Dr. David Sanders As the former Hebrew slaves encamped around Mount Sinai they were given their mission: “Be a light unto the nations.” That phrase was the seed for a project to bring much needed solar lamps to rural communities in Uganda. The scope of the project expanded to also provide filtration systems for […]
Seeing Through the Glass: Perception, Choice, and the Light We Carry
by Melanie Gruenwald “Ordinarily a person sees what is familiar to her experience… Her eyes are at the center of her universe.” — Allen Afterman, Kabbalah and Consciousness What we see is never neutral. We see through the lenses of our own stories—our time, place, assumptions, wounds, and hopes. Ordinary perception, as Allen Afterman suggests, […]
A Crack in Everything
by Melanie Gruenwald Today is a heavy day for Jews around the world. A day when our hope has been cracked. Cracked, not broken. The semantics here matter. When something is cracked, from the outside it seems to be broken. But wisdom is knowing that a crack only allows more light to shine through. That […]
Light, Darkness, and Meow Wolf
by Melanie Gruenwald My family recently visited Meow Wolf, an immersive art experience that opened in Denver, September, 2021. Stepping into the exhibit was like traveling down Alice’s Rabbit Hole- a place where time and space were transcended. According to the Meow Wolf website, participants: Discover immersive psychedelic, mind-bending art and an underlying rich narrative […]