Struggle in the Human Soul
Once again: I object to using the name of murderers in the news. We reward those who seek to go out in a blaze of ignominy by constantly...
Embracing All of Judaism
First day Sukkot, and I have shaken my lulav with etrog, prayed in accordance with our tradition, and read the Torah and haftarah...
A Good Jew -- High Holy Days 5778
One hundred twenty years and one month ago, August 29th, 1897, a secular Jewish reporter from Austria named Theodor Herzl called together...
TODAY Fiction was Born/e
Today, Donald Trump opened the world of fiction. In the week when thousands were made homeless by a hurricane, and a nation mourned the...
DACA
A poem by a Jewish woman, Emma Lazarus, which I now type from memory, which we young Jewish children of the 1950s were required to...
Jews Remember
We Jews rely on memory. Our festivals: sukkot, pesah and shavuot are built upon memory. Other holy days, e.g.: Tisha B'Av, Holocaust...