The capital of going astray.

This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Metzorah, is primarily concerned with a peculiar biblical affliction called tzaraat (tzah-RAH-at). Commonly mistranslated as ...

Beyond the letter of the law.

Why self-forgiveness is important this Yom Kippur

My parents are getting ready to move, to abandon the house I’ve lived in since I was born, and we ...

When I was about twelve years old, I opened my younger brother’s textbook, just out of curiosity. This textbook from ...

Why a Southern Jewish historian finds this album compelling musically and historically

In my early 30s, I had exciting opportunities to visit and work with public health projects in Uganda several times. ...

This past May I published an essay in The New York Times titled “Do the Jews Own Anxiety?” Not long afterward, ...

As an ISJL Education Fellow, I hit the road a lot and spend time in communities that are new to ...