Love, Marriage & Evolution is an 8 chapter, 166 page book and guide for contemplation released in November 2013. Download a complimentary copy here or purchase a print copy for your ongoing use. Excerpt from Chapter 2 LOVE All You Need Is Love? As we look at how we want to update our understanding and expression of love, it’s … Read More
No Independent Existence
An exclusive interview with H.H. the Dalai Lama. If you had the opportunity to interview anyone alive today to learn what the heart of the Buddha’s teaching of enlightenment truly is, it would most likely be to the monk Tenzin Gyatso that you would turn. And so began a string of faxes and phone calls to the mountain enclave of … Read More
Don’t Leave G-d Out of It: Zalman Schachter’s Views on Sexuality
This interview with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi explores his interpretation of views on sexuality and spirituality in Judaism. Western tantra, Christian and Hindu celibacy, Tibetan sexual yoga, Buddhist monasticism . . . as we began discussing these vastly divergent approaches to sexuality in spiritual life, I wondered what Judaism had to say about the subject. Raised in a Reconstructionist synagogue with … Read More
The Back of the Synagogue Is Not the Back of the Bus
An interview with Esther Kosovsky, educator, and Tamar Frankiel, President of Academy of Jewish Religion. “She converted to Orthodox Judaism after being a feminist!?” my colleagues exclaimed to me. “We have to speak with her!” We were discussing the work of Tamar Frankiel, author and educator, whose book The Voice of Sarah portrays the purpose and meaning in the traditional roles for women in … Read More