Rabbi Susan Leider’s Jweekly columns on select weekly Torah portions

Jewish Journal’s Table for Five on select weekly Torah portions


A recent sampling of my more than 40 Institute of Jewish Spirituality YouTube videos:

Let Time Use You 

Time, Tasks, and What Really Matters

Under the Light of the Full Moon 

A recent sampling of my more than 40 Institute of Jewish Spirituality YouTube videos:

On Select Weekly Torah Portions:

Rabbi Susan Leider’s Jweekly columns on select weekly Torah portions

Yitro: It’s Too Heavy for You 

Pekudei: All Your Journeyings

B’ha’alotkha: Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire 

Korah: An Antidote to Certainty 

Ekev: Consolation and Impermanence

A recent sampling of my more than 40 Institute of Jewish Spirituality YouTube videos on select Jewish holidays:


High Holy Days: A Person is Like a Ram’s Horn


The Sukkah: A House that is Open to the World


Hanukkah Light 


Counting the Omer: The Battles You’ve Chosen to Fight


Jews by Choice, Jews by Chance: Leadership in Bay Area Jewish Life, pt. 1 and pt. 2

Legacy of Spirituality with Rabbi Marc Margolius, Institute for Jewish Spirituality

Legacy of Music with Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann, Mishkan

Face to Face and Community Organizing: the Legacy of Relationships 

The Open Tent with Rabbi Adam Greenwald, Miller Introduction to Judaism

Psalms for Shabbat Morning 

Shabbat Shaharit 

Shabbat Torah Service 

Shabbat Concluding Service


Rosh Hashanah: Share Our Stories


Rosh Hashanah: Change and Choice

Yom Kippur: The Elephant, the Rider and Teshuvah

Parshat Tetzaveh: May We Be the Light

This Little Light of Mine – Friday night youth service