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Jun 18, 2025
In that statesmanlike address, Netanyahu offered the Iranian people hope. He reached back into their remote past to one of the greatest righteous gentiles in Jewish...
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Jun 16, 2025
It never fails. Whenever I discuss antisemitism with someone who leans either to the left or to the right, they invariably retort: “Yes, but what about … ” At that...
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Jun 5, 2025
A new, post-Oct. 7 Judaism would be a messy mixture of the mystical, the rational, the national, the religious, the secular, the Ashkenazic and the Sephardic. It would include new...
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May 19, 2025
Yes, Judaism believes in life after death. The Bible talks about Sheol, where the dead go to reside — a place of darkness, where nothing much really happens. But there was...
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May 2, 2025
In honor of today — Yom haAtzmaut, Israel independence day — let me offer you a Hebrew lesson.
You already know the first word. Tikvah. “Hope.”
Tikvah is...
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Mar 14, 2025
Let me tell you about my colleague, Rabbi Ari Jun. He serves as a rabbi in Cincinnati — which just happens to be the birthplace of every institution in American Reform...
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Feb 5, 2025
We want our worship experiences to be uplifting and inspirational. But, we are missing out on the emotional richness and depth of the religious experience. Yes — joy,...
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Jan 10, 2025
That is not how it is with us. As fire consumes houses, businesses and nature, so, too, worry, concern and fear consume us. The typical “thoughts and prayers,” which we...
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Jan 2, 2025
Hanukkah is here, and with it, the annual need to retell the story, and to make sure that we all know why, exactly, we are celebrating this holiday.
No, this holiday was not about...
