There Are No Good Old Days
We have arrived finally at Parashat Haazinu, the last speech Moses will make to his people and the penultimate installment of his conversation with us from miles and centuries away.
Oren J. Hayon
Moses’s Death, God’s Breath
Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses," Poems, vol.
Father of Multitudes
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" One principle that remains reliably true throughout the Bible is that the fruitful production of children is evidence of God's love and providence for favored and faithful humans.
Strange Fruit
After seeing the infamous 1930 photograph by Lawrence Beitler, which depicts the mob lynching of two young black men, a Jewish high school teacher named Abel Meeropol wrote a haunting poem titled "Strange Fruit." The poem was first published in 1936 in The New York Teacher, a union magazine.
Standing Together, Standing Apart
The Hebrew month of Elul invites us into a period of preparatory self-reflection and contemplation, calling us to center our thoughts on our own t'shuvah.
