The Jewish value of courage doesn't require the absence of fear, only the capacity to move through it.

Wisdom can be born from connection to the the vast interconnected wildness in the world.

For Jews, home is elusive. And that might be precisely the point. 

A Hasidic teaching suggests that power, rather than bringing about liberation, achieves just the opposite.

The commandment not to oppress the stranger can refer to war refugees, for whom the Torah demands intense compassion.

Truly great leadership requires a correspondence between an individual’s inner and outer lives.

Perhaps the Jewish people are the embodied principle of life itself, a distillation of humanity evolving toward that which it is not yet?  

The scriptural readings of Shavuot force us to consider the emotional and spiritual dimensions of indebtedness.

With some exceptions, the Jewish people have always been beset by external conflict and inner turmoil. 

Sometimes right and wrong look so similar it's nearly impossible to distinguish between them.