Another school shooting, this time in Michigan. Too many murders in cities and towns across our country. So much violence undermining the sanctity of life. The sanctity of…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmBibh16vUQ&t=4s As events at home and abroad, including the court cases that are making headlines, the attack in Wisconsin and the murder of Eli Kay z”l in Jerusalem,…
As the polls have now closed, the votes are being counted and the voices of the people are being heard, please God, help us to lie down in…
The Jewish calendar takes us on a bit of a roller coaster during the summer. Last Saturday/Sunday, we marked one of the darkest days of the Jewish year,…
A Mother’s Day Tale/Midrash (originally posted Mother’s Day 2015) At the beginning of time, God created the plants and the trees, the Sun and the Moon. God created…
While for some, the college admission scandal that made headlines early last week feels like old news, it’s still something that I’ve been thinking a lot about. I’d…
Stephen Hawking’s final book, Brief Answers to Big Questions, was published earlier this week, seven months after his passing. In it, Hawking, a brilliant physicist, cosmologist and mathematician explains that “the universe…
Just like last Friday, the unrest surrounding the possible nomination of Judge Kavanaugh is keeping us riveted to the national news. The pundits are offering their predictions on…
Today isn’t a good day for paraskavedekatriaphobics – those who are afraid of Friday the 13th. Most paraskavedekatriaphobics don’t really know why they’re afraid of this day. The…
This post was originally shared on Mother’s Day, 2014 In celebration of Mother’s Day, I want to take us back in time to the 1920s as the Russian…
Korach and his followers swallowed by the earth. From the Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible illustrations in the possession of Revd. Philip De Vere at St. George’s Court,…