I’m thinking today about my late sister, whose birthdate is fast approaching — a very good time for me to remember her at her best and worst — which is…

Memory is tricky, sometimes bringing something back to you when you least expect it. This happened to me earlier on the very same evening that I’m now writing this. The…

I read recently in our daily paper that Mark Cuban “is once again innovating in the digital space, launching a new kind of online art gallery for creators in Dallas…

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…

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…

Today is April 1, often called “April Fools’ Day.”  But we Jews are not fools – no longer to be taken in by outside lying promises,  or even by our…

This coming weekend, we should all be sitting around festive seder tables, welcoming springtime and the Prophet Elijah as we once more open our real and figurative doors to a…

It seems the time is ripe for another listing of the most active antisemites in our country now, when antisemitism is again raising its ugly head in many parts of…

I much appreciated Rabbi David Glickman’s memories of the now-late Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski — surely one of a kind in the vast annals of Jewish leadership. I have some…

Purim has come and gone, but its memories are always with me, rich and fresh every year. That’s because of my dear Boubby the Philosopher, who made me a Jew…a…