By Rabbi Geoffrey DennisParashat Tazria-Metzora To a devout Jew, and, even more so a rabbi, all parashiyot are equal. Torah always has something to say to us. But, to paraphrase…
By Josh Yudkin We just finished celebrating Passover and telling the story of the Exodus from Egypt and escaping slavery. We are still mourning racially motivated murders in Atlanta last…
By Laura Seymour Dear Families, A number of years ago, just before Passover, David Ben-Gurion’s grandson spoke at Congregation Shearith Israel about his grandfather and Israel. He related a story…
Dear Rabbi, Thank you for answering my question relating to “counting the Omer.” I was fascinated by the point you made at the end of your remarks that one can…
I have not yet met Bonnie Glogover “in the flesh,” as the saying goes, but I know her very well; today’s internet makes this different kind of friendship possible. We…
By Laura Seymour Dear Families, It’s springtime and the trees are coming back to life. Many of our trees and bushes did not survive the crazy freeze but don’t give…
By Edwin Black An egregious lie has been making the rounds lately. It is a timeworn smear against the Jewish people in a modern guise. The ancient blood libel —…
By Menachem Z. Rosensaft (JTA) — Not long after the gruesome reality of the Holocaust had burst onto the world’s consciousness, the philosopher and social theorist Theodor Adorno famously observed…
By Rabbi Dan Lewin The 49-day period between Pesach and Shavuot is known as “the counting of the Omer.” This countdown — a mitzvah each day — is not simply…
I received this from a New Jersey friend who reports it as an actual happening — not to her, but found on an Instagram site called “Humans of Judaism”: “At…