compassion

Why My Father Went to War

I had already seen the cover art of this week’s New Yorker magazine in a news feed, but when the ...

This year the first day of Passover fell on Shabbat. Can we find a deeper connection between Shabbat and Passover?Perhaps we ...

My fear is not very far below the surface. It rises when I hear about another shooting in Brooklyn, sometimes ...

When is Rosh Hashanah 2015? Find out here. Or wondering when is Yom Kippur 2015? Click here to find out!The Ba’al ...

Like most New York Jews, I love “The Daily Show,” and so I was very sad to hear that Jon ...

I cannot remember the last time I switched on the news—be it on the television or the radio—or glanced at a newspaper headline ...

Where is home? Is it where you live, even if it is temporary? Is it where you grew up? Is ...

You may have caught a couple of stories that have been spreading virally over blogs and Face book the last ...

Every year on the 9th of Av it’s the same arguments in my head. Should I fast or not? On ...