This musician’s levity and humor are in service of a deeper message: taking every piece of who he is and recognizing it—the African-American and the Jew.

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…

In the fall of 1972, when I was starting the third grade, I moved to London with my parents and my brothers for my father’s

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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

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