Finding Holiness at the Zoo
If you've ever looked directly at the light emanating from a prism, you know that it is nearly blinding.
Gifts to Israel: 19 New Citizens Celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut
There's nothing like experiencing something for the very first time. Swimming the length of the Kinneret. A first love. The first whiff of this year's jasmine blossoms in Jerusalem. Taking your very first bite of my homemade bread pudding (trust me).
Some Thoughts on Baseball's Miguel Cabrera, the Torah, and Celebrity Wealth
Miguel Cabrera, the Detroit Tigers’ third-baseman, had a pretty good year last year – and the year before that, and before that. He’s won the last two American League MVP awards. In fact, he’s been in the top five of the MVP award voting for the last five years.
Shabbat is Everywhere
I’ve always been taught that when the Jewish people read from the Torah, it is not a random passage.
Another Miriam Worth Remembering
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States this year, Rabbi Carole Balin, Ph.D., is sharing eight chapters of an "alternative Book of Numbers” designed to tell the stories of Jewish women who combined civic engagement with Jewish values in a 40-year struggle “in the wilderness” to pass the 19th Amendment.
Why I Am a Zionist for Black Lives Matter
As an Israeli citizen and white citizen of the United States, I believe that Black Lives Matter – and that no American of good conscience can simply opt out of engaging with the pervasive issue of racism in America. If we will it, it is no dream.
Does Don Draper Want to Be Jewish?
In the weeks before the beginning of the final season of Mad Men, the show’s creator Matthew Weiner did rounds
Being Holy - and Staying Alive
Acharei Mot, the first of this week's two parashiyot, begins on an unsettling note—a reminder of the death of Aaron's sons and the suggestion that such tragedies might occur again unless the priests take specified steps to prevent them