Sages & Scholars

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to this year’s Mensch Madness final game!In this year’s tournament, we have seen some ...

Welcome back to Mensch Madness! It’s already Game 5!Rabbi Moses Ben Maimo, also known as Maimonides, alias Rambam, is in the ...

You have shared some of your intimate emotional struggles with a colleague and close friend. Very soon afterward you lose ...

In the year 2000, I was still a newly-minted Jew, having completed my conversion in March of 1999. As Passover ...

This week’s Torah portion commands us to swear off cheeseburgers. Well not exactly. It was the rabbis that created the ...

“Ever tried, ever failed,” Samuel Beckett once wrote. “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. “  (in  Still Writing: ...

Maimonides, popularly known as Rambam, was born on March 30, 1135. Maimonides is best known as a philosopher, prolific author and jurist: ...

This past week in synagogues throughout the world we rolled the Torah scroll forward and began reading from the Book ...

This week, the Amazon Kindle version of Jewish Ethics & Social Justice is only $1.99!In Jewish law, we are told ...

And Moses read the Book of the Covenant to the people and they said “All that God has commanded we ...