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Helping Our Kids to Return Home

I can’t stop thinking about Jordana Horn’s recent post about her son who came home from camp early. I don’t ...

Delaying Bar Mitzvah Till Age 25

I run a pretty rockin’ Bar (or Bat) Mitzvah service.  I’ve officiated at several hundred of these events. I’ve been ...

Living a Legacy Down South

This month I made a big move. After a year spent in Jerusalem, I moved to Jackson, Mississippi to serve ...

Remember the Days of Old

The Torah describes an earlier time, when lands were distributed fairly by God.

On Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen”

When I first read Chaim Potok’s  The Chosen  I wasn’t yet trying to be a writer myself, and was blissfully ...

What About Corn?

It started with a simple tweet. Little did I know that I would be spending my morning figuring out the ...

Yalta

The role of the wife of Rabbi Nahman in the Babylonian Talmud.

Sotah 10

She is more righteous than I.

Shabbat 129

A Talmudic guide to bloodletting.

More than Enough: So Hard to Say Thank You

I remember when my eldest child(now 11) first learned to say the words, “Thank you.” At first, I was happy ...

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