What have you been doing with your “spare time” during these long weeks that I’ve come to call “house arrest”? Probably a number of things more useful and efficient than…
Part IIPolice brutality has been the focus of attention in the news since my previous column.Except for a scattering of informed interviewees, I’ve heard little from the news dealing with…
This week’s Torah portion is Behaalotcha and it starts with some housekeeping instructions. “The Eternal One spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you mount…
Dear Rabbi,I have a question, which was assigned to my class by my religious-school teacher to research. Please answer with exact references. He said that it says in the Talmud…
Our country was embroiled in battles of another kind as D-Day was recalled last Saturday. June 6, 1944, was the day when more than 160,000 U.S. soldiers — every one…
This week’s Torah portion discusses the perplexing character of the Nazir or Nazarite. Nazir refers to a man or woman who makes a specific vow in order to become closer…
Hi Rabbi Fried, Can you please explain the difference between the Christian concept of praying to saints and our concept of praying at the graves of our righteous tzaddikim? Thanks,…
What you’re reading now isn’t the column I intended for today. But after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis and its aftermath, riots both here and elsewhere are much more important. …
First of two parts.As Jews, we remind ourselves each Passover of our people’s search for freedom. We abhor those evil vestiges of the past and celebrate our freedoms.As immigrants to…
In the almost three years that I’ve lived in Israel, I’ve found that being gay here isn’t so different from being gay in America. Though there are differences in the…