The Exurban Rabbi? Not So Fast!
Should those who live in cities make a Faustian bargain to fight the tide against urban life, asks Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg.
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Author: Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg
A mural of Freddie Gray's face and the movement inspired by his death while in policy custody graces a wall in West Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester community. (Photo by Solomon Swerling)
Memories of Freddie Gray and those Fiery ‘Five Days’ of Reckoning in Baltimore
Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg is proud of the way Beth Am’ers and others in the Jewish community showed up during the Baltimore Uprising following the death of Freddie Gray five years ago, but, like Wes Moore, he also has regrets for what he was not able to do.
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President Trump is a fan of Andrew
Jackson’s and made a point of adding a
portrait of the seventh president to the
Oval Office soon after his inauguration.
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied
We must be more attentive to the ground on which we stand, writes Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg.
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The Pikes became a first-run theater in 1958, featuring such classics as "The Graduate," "The Producers," "Blazing Saddles," "Hester Street" and "The Frisco Kid."(Photo by Terrell D. Anderson)
Hidden Wisdoms
How do we measure “good” neighborhoods from “bad” ones, asks Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg, and change our perceptions of urban Baltimore?
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Something Greater
Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg says humanity’s worth stretches well beyond what we mere mortals can see in our daily lives.
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Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg and Team Beth Am recently returned from the annual Israel Ride, a five-day cycling trip from Jerusalem to Eilat that benefits the Arava Institute and Hazon organizations.
Savor and Enjoy
For Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg, a bicycle ride from Jerusalem to Eilat brings Israel and the environment powerfully into focus.
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Beth Am Synagogue's building was designed by renowned architect Joseph Evans Sperry. (File photo by Joel Nadler)
Honoring Each Other
Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg reflects on what he learned worshipping in a black Baptist church as Beth Am Synagogue took a long-term lease with Mount Lebanon Baptist Church.
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A guesthouse in Mishkenot Sha’ananim, the first Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem built outside the city walls. (Photo Wikipedia)
Open to Interpretation
Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg says the High Holy Day season offers several potent images and metaphors.
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Open from 1893 to 1973, Gwynn Oak Park in Northwest Baltimore’s Woodlawn community was desegregated in 1963 after several years of protests.
(Photo from Wikipedia)
Underpinnings of Justice
Many white families accustomed to frequenting the Gwynn Oak amusement park simply stopped coming.
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A bridge over Northern Parkway near Sinai Hospital will enable cyclists, joggers and pedestrians to cross over the car-filled chasm.
(Photo by Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg)
Softening the Boundaries
In Reservoir Hill, once Baltimore’s urban Jewish epicenter, we are nearly surrounded by border vacuums.
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Transforming the Core
Within months, final renovations of German Park will be complete and the many hundreds of children in Reservoir Hill will continue to enjoy this community asset.
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