This post is for anyone who finds waiting to be a challenge – meaning most everyone.

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Several people have forwarded me this email in the past two days:Dear Friends, Last Shabbat, in my sermon, I offered ...

After months of anticipation, I arrived in a slightly damp and chilly Israel for the annual training of summer shlichim ...

This fruit dessert is a wonderful alternative to apple crisp.

The best jokes about beggars and moochers.

These flavors deepen as they are cooked, making them sweeter.

The evolution of attitudes towards physicians, beliefs connecting illness and sin, prayers for healing, and the use of folk healing traditions.

Jewish texts portray Yom Kippur as a serious day of repentance and reflection — but not one of sadness.

Capital punishment: allowed in the Torah and Talmud, but rarely carried out by Jewish courts.