It binds us, like an invisible string, to generations of Jews past and future. 

Before we can transform, we must see ourselves as we are. That’s a lesson of the Omer.

When the Temple stood, the omer offering, made on the second day of Passover (the 16th of Nisan), is what ...

Miriam and Aaron show us how to fail, ask for help and grow.

Priests are forbidden from drinking wine because they bear responsibility for guarding the core of Jewish holiness.

The truth is not that we were once strangers; the truth is that we are strangers.

For the Israelites, acceptance of the covenant was twofold: identification with the people through circumcision in Egypt and acceptance of God at Sinai.

When I was twenty, I met a charming elderly man on a train in Greece who told me I looked ...

I was recently in an awkward social situation.   My husband and I were invited to dinner at the home of ...

Yesterday, we discussed the twice-daily griddle-cake offering of the high priest, and who covers the cost if he dies between ...