Real Simcha As we arrive at Simchat Torah—the celebration of rejoicing with the Torah—and the official end of the High…
Two Minutes of Torah
My favorite verse in the entire Tanakh is Ecclesiastes 9:11: “I have further observed under the sun that the race…
In the 1960’s and 70’s (depending on which version you like) and for generations after, music listeners around the globe have enjoyed…
Parashat Ki Teitzei begins with a passage that might (should?) trouble us. The Torah imagines an Israelite soldier who sees…
Of all the memorable verses in the Torah, this week’s Torah portion, Parashat Shoftim, contains one of the most well-known…
Concerns about demagogues, celebrity, and the shallow pursuit of notoriety seem to be modern concerns. But the attractions of charisma…
I remember the exact moment that my orientation to the Jewish story crystallized into its current form. I was 19…
My grandfather had a handful of speeches he loved to give. He would say, referencing the Mishnah, that “the greatest…
When our B’nai Mitzvah students write their drashot, they identify a lesson that one can derive from their parsha and prepare to teach it to…