Prayer

I remember Yom Kippur when I was 13. I was in synagogue, proudly wearing the  tallit I had been given ...

Within the liturgy of Yom Kippur, guilt is assumed to be collective, as we communally recite the sins. That being ...

“Just call me on my cell. My house can be difficult to find.”I hobbled through the alleyways of the thick, ...

This week’s Torah portion begins with Moses’s request to enter the Promised Land.Deuteronomy 323. And I pleaded with the Lord ...

Prayer is a very personal and private thing. In fact, to be honest to a fault, let me say that ...

While I certainly use my iPhone to check my e-mail and make calls, far and away, what really drains my ...

A simple street scene glimpsed on the early morning commute. A woman in her forties dressed in a sari, a ...

Our basic premise as activists is human responsibility. We, not someone else, must step up to create change in the ...

There is no conformity for liberal Jewish women in the synagogue when it comes to wearing a head covering. Look ...

Every Thursday afternoon at my yeshiva college in Queens my Gemara rebbe (teacher of Talmud) would offer a short thought ...