We’ve endured for so long because we’ve always found good reasons to continue our story; we’ve always had good things to look ...
The images of young men starved and tortured in propaganda videos released by their evil Hamas captors seared the conscience of our people.
As we begin the Torah with Bereishit, we are reminded by the Netziv that our forefathers' uprightness contrasts with the ...
Well, we have come to the end of the 53 (gematria of the word GAN – meaning garden) portions of the Torah. This week we start all over again. I once asked some first graders why we keep reading the ...
Renewal is integral to our human experience. We are dynamic creatures, just like the world around us,” writes.
I had said the trigger word – sirens. “No more air raid sirens.” Air raid sirens. Her super-fear. Mention of sirens triggered ...
Shemini Atzeret, both a biblically mandated festival and the Yartzeit of hundreds of Jews murdered two years ago, is now and ...
Even atheists can enjoy these secular Yiddish poems and their English translations, related to the Torah reading.
Based on the pattern expressed earlier of connecting the ending and beginning of the Torah, we notice that the last letter of ...
Explore insights from Rabbi Steven Gotlib on the significance of Sukkot in today's world and its timeless value.
As Yom Kippur ended, Jews emerged from their prayers and were confronted with a nightmare: at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, worshippers were violently attacked. A terrorist drove into them ...