August 2014

Recently a friend of mine made a very astute point: “We’re from the Midwest. We don’t do conflict.”His offhanded comment ...

“Um, Rabbi? Don’t you feel a little bit weird with a cross on the back of your car?”I fielded this ...

“There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.” So says the author of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) in a ...

Keshet is thrilled to have the inside scoop on the recently published  The Boy’s Own Manual to Being a Proper Jew. Eli ...

Tisha B’Av (Aug. 5th), which commemorates the destruction of the Temple also marks the seven week countdown to Rosh Hashanah. ...

This week, ISJL staff have been all over… and in addition to visiting Southern Jewish communities, we’ve been serving as ...

“You’ll see, he won’t want to leave in the end,” my wife, Cynthia, said. “He’s going to have the time ...

“To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting America’s origins in a slavery economy is patriotism a’ la carte.” A recent ...

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as  parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

In the past week the rabbis witting on this blog have commented on several current controversial issues, Christian anti-Semitism, US ...