Jewish Texts
Teaching Our Larger Communities About Chanukah
Last year, just before Chanukah, a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman came to me for some assistance. Her four-year-old daughter ...
Publishing a Real Life Old-Fashioned Book
Here’s the thing about being both an author and a blogger: It makes you impatient. When I write a rant ...
The Urgency of Civility
It seems to me that we do not do a lot of talking to each other anymore. There is lots ...
The Study of Torah Encompasses Them All
A young man adorned with a black hat, a prayer shawl and phylacteries offers up his morning prayers in the ...
“Wocka Wocka!”
I’m excited about the new Muppet Movie, and who wouldn’t be given great lines like the following from the trailer:Kermit, ...
The role of music in the healing of Gabrielle Giffords
Yesterday morning, in a weekly class on Jewish mysticism that I teach in the local community, we were concluding our ...
Talmud: An Explanation
There is no getting away from the Babylonian Talmud--love it, hate it, or both.