Rabbi James Ponet

Talmudic sages posed the question. We’re still working through the answers.

Tuesday's psalm speaks truth to judges who "bumble in darkness while the world collapses into chaos."

What will I hear when the shofar is sounded this Rosh Hashanah?

Only we humans have the capacity to choose not to do something we're capable of doing.

Brooding over a psalmist's question in the face of death.

The decisions I make in response to my Jewish inheritance shape my Jewishness more than the specific circumstances into which I was born.    

The Torah commands us to remember the evil of Amalek — but also to forget.

Jewish tradition is deeply torn, and even contradictory, in its thinking about war.

What exactly is lost when you lose home and what is gained when you recover it?

The new does not need to deny the old its truth, only to expose new possibilities.