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Wise Fridays: Self Improvement
If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, then what need do you have for tomorrow? –Rabbi Nahman ...
4 Hanukkah Songs
Hanukkah songs are sung in an important and joyous part of the candle lighting ceremony each night.
The Shuls, They Are A’Changin’
Abby Sher, author of Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Praying (among Other Things), is blogging ...
Wise Fridays: Fear of God
Fear only two: God, and him who fears not God. –Yiddish preacher Judah Leib Lazerov Find more Wise Fridays wisdom ...
Spiritual Karate
Somewhere between a field guide, an instruction manual, and a well-meaning memoir, Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein’s new book The Challenge ...
From the Academy: Mysticism and Philosophy
Elliot R. Wolfson is the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, where he teaches ...
Best Of The Week
Shabbat is starting earlier and earlier. Someone please stop the sun. It is on a reign of terror that I ...
Full of Hate, or Too Nice?
A few days ago a friend sent me a link to this site, and my head has been spinning ever ...
If You Could Get All the Jews Everywhere to Do Something, What Would it Be?
Last week I was at this salon type thing where a diverse group of Jews had a conversation about Jewish ...
Wise Fridays: Civilized Warfare
Renunciation of chemical and biological warfare, and humane treatment for prisoners of war…are certainly marks of civilized peoples, but on ...
Wise Fridays: Men Follow Women
The Holy One, Blessed be He, said to Moses, “Go speak to the daughters of Israel and ask them whether ...