Jewish History

Making Meaning of Tisha B’Av Through the Lens of Literature

Rabbi Jordi Schuster Battis

When you have come into the land
that the Eternal your God is giving to you as a heritage,
and you have possessed it and settled there,
you shall take from among all the first fruits of the ground
that you bring forth from your land-
which the Eternal your

The Power of Pesach

Rabbi Henry Jay Karp

Over 30 years ago, I read an article which reported a statistical study of Jewish observances. The big news in that article was that while many Jews assumed that the most observed Jewish holiday of the year is Yom Kippur, the statistics indicated that by a