March 2016

What an exciting match-up we have today: Joseph Caro versus Isaac Luria. Two titans of Torah commentary, taking it to ...

1. Let children know that healthy debate is good. They can be curious about the opinions of others and ask ...

I’ll admit when I looked up at my calendar this week I loudly exclaimed “It’s already March! But what about ...

To be honest, I really struggle in these months before an election. The tsunami of political rhetoric in and of ...

Most people find this section (the final chapters of Exodus and first few chapters of Leviticus) of the Torah pretty ...

Lesbian and Jewish theater icon Elizabeth Swados died in January at the age of 64. Swados was an American writer, composer, musician ...

Welcome to Mensch Madness… Game Two!This time around, we have the age old match-up of Rashi and Maimonides. These two ...

I was in college in the early ’90s when I got my first email address. After my roommate came home one ...

The day was bleak and windy. At best, I figured, there would be maybe six hours of daylight. The clouds ...

As a rabbi, one of the life-cycle processes I accompany people through is the funeral. When a person dies, burying ...