Dana Evan Kaplan

Ackee is the national fruit of jamaica. It can be poison if eaten before it's ripe but I don't think the intention here was to poison me!...

Mike, who was the president of the Temple in Alabama, and I are still in touch.

The Springhill Avenue Temple cemetery is a beautiful part of Mobile filled with history. One of the men buried in it, in particular, was...

Above is the ark in the synagogue in the new city. This is again from last year but I wanted to post it now to conclude what was a...

I went with the Brotherhood to a football game. It was exciting but we lost badly!

I experienced my first full-fledged hurricane when Sandy hit Jamaica in October 2012. Jamaica was the first country hit by Sandy. It was...

I wrote a pet blessing ceremony when I was rabbi in Albany Georgia and I have updated it several times. We don't have a specific time of...

Back in Alabama, we took some of our religious school students to visit a local TV station. It had nothing to do with Judaism but it was...

Professor Marc Ellis invited me to speak through the Jewish studies program at Baylor University. I think I spoke three times. Once to a...

Visiting Dolphin Cove was a terrific experience. There's now increasing amounts of attention being paid to whether dolphins and other sea...

My first Friday in Israel I ended up coming in the right timing of the Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv. This event attracted over 180,000...

Message from Scholar In Residence Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan This is a most unusual year to be a scholar in Residence at Congregation Beth...

Here's a photo of the golf course close to my house back in Arizona right after my arrival from Israel July 2024.

I thought it was funny that the guy was trying to read a book while waiting for his baggage!