Rosh Hashana marked the beginning of 5775, a shemitta, or sabbatical, year in the Land of Israel. According to the Torah, “And six years you

American democracy originated in the Torah’s egalitarian nature and just aspirations.

As the famous author and scholar lay in his hospital bed recuperating from surgery, questions of God and His place in the bad as well as the good…

We all know that Father’s Day is a secular American holiday, invented as a way of honoring fathers as a complement to Mother’s Day. Sometimes

In medieval Haggadot, it was not unusual to find an illustration of maror—the bitter herb on the Seder plate—in a woman’s form. In the partner,

The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time…and said…I will bestow my blessing upon you and make your descendents as numerous as

Years ago, I read After Auschwitz: History, Theology, and Contemporary Judaism, Richard Rubenstein’s painful little book published in 1966. It argues that the covenant between God

We are at a small dinner party with close friends as rockets rain down on Israel and on Gaza. Everyone at the table is Jewish.