August 2014

I recently spent two weeks in Philadelphia participating in a two week seminar as part of my Museum Studies masters ...

Joshua, Moses’ trusted assistant, has exactly three spoken lines in the Five Books of Moses, a.k.a. the Torah .After the ...

Sarah is barren, Rachel is barren, Rivka is barren. As a single man, I too am barren, unable to conceive ...

Growing up, my favorite day was the annual Israel day parade in Philadelphia. It was a celebration of belonging and identity. ...

This week our friends at Kveller shared this painful story of a woman losing the support of her father after ...

As Parashat Va’et’hanan opens, Moses is pleading for forgiveness, in order to be permitted to enter the promised land along ...

When I was growing up, I used to listen to records of GI Joe or Sci Fi stories that came ...

 What makes a secular Israeli connect to his Jewish identity, roots and spirituality? What makes secular Jew from Jerusalem become ...

There were a couple of times when I said Kaddish in some unconventional or “unorthodox” circumstances, but they were quite ...

About me: I’m a judicial officer. I’ve served on presidential and gubernatorial campaigns, and as counsel to my state Senate. I earned one ...