Brokenness and Repair
More than simply broken, the world is unrealized and incomplete, writes Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg.
Read More
|
|
Author: Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg
The Kindness of Strangers
One small act of decency and generosity can make all the difference in the world, writes Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg.
Read More
Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg: “Young people's lives are filled with vision and possibility." (File photo)
Small Indignities
Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg of Reservoir Hill’s Beth Am Synagogue reflects on the forms of Jewish minimization he has encountered, and he says fighting for justice means fighting for us as well.
Read More
Cities of Kindness
The promise of repair can be a salve for the persistent pain of injustice, writes Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg.
Read More
The source of the Jones Falls is this stream bubbling near the intersection of Caves and Garrison Forest roads in Owings Mills. (Photo by Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg)
An Urban Oasis
Re-envisioning Druid Hill Park requires looking backward and forward, writes Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg, just as Rosh Hashanah asks us to look backward to move forward.
Read More
Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg stands in the middle of S. Durham Street in Upper Fells Point, where iconic jazz singer Billie Holiday grew up.
Righteous Remembrance
Pilgrimage is about bearing witness to the past, in the present, while gazing into the future, writes Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg, and working toward justice in Baltimore is becoming better acquainted with its history.
Read More
Relationships or Death
The principle of relational justice is a fundamentally Jewish teaching, writes Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg.
Read More
Contrary Winds
Fairness and failure walk a fine line in the pursuit of justice, writes Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg.
Read More
Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg: “Young people's lives are filled with vision and possibility." (File photo)
How Should American Jews Contemplate their ‘Whiteness’?
Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg of Reservoir Hill’s Beth Am Synagogue has been thinking a lot about how Jews with white skin ought to feel about their whiteness.
Read More
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preaching from his pulpit in 1960 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga. (Dozier Mobley/Getty Images via JTA)
The Danger of Incuriosity
When we find the world is burning, we don’t have the right to simply give up, writes Beth Am’s Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg.
Read More
President Donald Trump speaks during an election event at the White House on Nov. 4, 2020. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images, via JTA)
Kindness Should Never be Weaponized in the Struggle for Equality
Civility is important, writes Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg, but we can’t allow it to mask the need for truth, reconciliation and justice.
Read More