Maya Salemeh, third from right, and the other 2016 National Student Poets, with Megan Beyer (center), Executive Director of the President’s Committee on the Arts Tomorrow night,…
We’re currently in the Jewish month of Elul, the last month of the Jewish year. As we prepare to welcome the new Jewish year 5777, our tradition encourages…
I hope you all have been enjoying your summer. I am back online after some fun adventures! A picture of my custom Bar Mitzvah tallit As many of…
Seeing the photograph of the doll in the street in Nice, next to the body of the child (one of ten children killed in the attack) who was…
Pictured above (left to right): a memorial for Philando Castile, a Dallas Police badge wrapped in a mourning band and a memorial for Alton Sterling This morning, many of us…
As you know, the Orlando attack has led to passionate discussions about some complex issues that we are wrestling with nationally. One of the issues in the spotlight…
My alarm goes off at 6:15 in the morning and almost immediately I begin to think about the things I have to get done in the new day…
On June 12th, my grandfather, Louis Landesman z”l, would have turned 100 years old. While he passed away in 2006, he is still an integral part of my…
I shared this story on Friday night and many of you were touched by it. It was written by Rabbi Margaret Wenig and can be found in its…