Many of us have been in awe of the families of those murdered last week at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church. Somehow, someway, these families were able to forgive…
The words of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy: The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations…
Pastor Clementa Pinckney One of the nine victims of the horrific shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church this week was Pastor Clementa Pinckney, the church’s spiritual leader.…
Barbra Streisand on the Jack Paar Show – April 5, 1961 Today, my grandfather, Louis Landesman z”l, would have turned 102. As many of you know, if it weren’t…
Many of us have recently celebrated or are about to celebrate the graduation of children and grandchildren from high school, college and graduate school. While for some, letting…
Curses can become blessings. This is a fundamental Jewish concept that is captured in the song Mah Tovu that we sing at the beginning of every Shabbat morning service.…
Last week, I shared with you an article written by my colleague, Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu, that focused on the innovation that is going on within the Jewish world,…
Creativity and change are two fundamental Jewish values. Next week, we celebrate these values with the holiday of Shavuot, which commemorates the anniversary of our receiving the Torah…
When something in society is broken, we are obligated to fix it. It is a basic Jewish value, captured in the Torah: “Tzedek tzedek tirdof “ – “Justice,…
“I love that this (Israeli) exit shares the name with an Ashkenazi egg noodle dish” writes Israeli comedian Benji Lovitt in his list of things he loves about…
As the horrific plan to exterminate the Jews began to unfold, Hitler’s troops entered a Polish town charged with rounding up the Jews and sending them to a…