Rabbi Michael Knopf ponders the changing relationship Richmond's citizens have with Confederate monuments in the wake of the protests against police violence that have transformed the city. The recent wave of anti-racism protests have produced at least one tangible...
"The soul of this nation is sick because of the bad faith of white supremacy. That bad faith both made us what we are, and continues to break us apart. But there is a cure." As 2019 approaches its end, and as the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts unveils Kehinde...
The history of Guatemala's secret abductions reminds us how important the principle of universal equality really is -- and points out how far from that principle the United States has gone. On a recent trip to Guatemala with rabbinic colleagues from around the...
A few weeks ago, I attended a gathering of faith leaders from across the Richmond, Va. region. Speaker after speaker — including a scholar at a conservative think tank and two Republican politicians — blamed social ills like the opioid epidemic on “family breakdown”...
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Gov. Ralph Northam and a small, interfaith group of religious leaders for a Passover seder at the Executive Mansion in Richmond. Passover is the Jewish holiday commemorating the biblical story of liberation for...