Mark H. Levin

Alone among the creatures, as far as we know, human beings need meaning to survive. Added to air, food, water and reproduction, we humans need to know why we exist: the meaning (reflection on the past) and purpose (direction in the future) of our lives.

My belief, my re...

Separation of Church and State, the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution, presents inexhaustible complexities. On the one hand, our Founders sought to separate political control of the new country from a State religion, having seen the corrup...

Sitting alone in my sukkah this evening, without the family who joined us last night, I enumerated family whose presence I felt even though I never met them: my personal Ushpizin. The grandparents and great grandparents I never met but whose real or imaginary pictures...

Rosh Hashanah is a time for soul reflection. It's very intimate, very personal, and necessarily honest.

Traveling within ourselves, we navigate the pathways by which we have deceived ourselves and betrayed our souls this year. We look to the midot, the moral traits of h...

I am aware of a congenital medical condition in which doctors discover that a person, of any age, has a hole in their heart. When discovered, the doctors generally sew up the hole, and the problem is fixed. The person's health improves; they are better than ever, beca...

A young woman who was dedicating her life to serving families in pain died of a random shooting in Kansas City.

In separate incidents, 29 people were murdered, at least 20 of them by a white supremacist likely urged on by the rhetoric of the President of the United St...