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When Should Patience Trump Passion?

Like Moses, we need to transform our natural impulses into something higher.

What does it look like to think of one day as helping us to balance our lives?

Everyone's contribution, and occasionally sacrifice, is necessary.

I first came across the writings of Dovid Katz while researching what happened to my relatives in Lithuania in the ...

Shabbat is the antidote to our busy pressure-filled lives.

Earlier this month, Hadassah Braun Margolese wrote a blog here at The Torch describing her anguish about not being able ...

Happy Hanukkah, Jewish learners and lovers of Jewish learners! If gift-giving is a part of your Hanukkah tradition, let our ...

A number of recent essays have been swimming their way across the blogosphere and seem to have serendipitously swirled together. ...

I’ve just returned from a trip to Jerusalem where I participated in two important gatherings: the Planning Summit for a ...

In the wake of the current discussion of the Gital Dodelson case (about which I know nothing more than what ...

A numinous dream, last Wednesday:I am on Kibbutz Ein Dor, near the city of Afula in Northern Israel, visiting my ...

“Ensuenyo Te Vi” Three words that normally don’t go together: Ladino, Pop, Pregnant. But in my world they make a ...