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Hebrew’s Theological Significance

According to Jewish tradition, Hebrew is the original language of humanity and the language spoken by God.

Restore Yourself

A few months ago I realized I hadn’t been myself for a long time. I’d been under a lot of stress ...

How can one make moral decisions?

A few weeks ago, an acquaintance of mine gleefully forwarded a link to a study that asserted that atheists and ...

Deciding How We Fit into Jewish Day School

Earlier this week, the AVI CHAI Foundation together with the Steinhardt Foundation posed a question to the Jewish community: What ...

How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss

Given the rise of today’s growing youth-led LGBTQ movements, there seems to be a divide between where we have been ...

Wandering Jewess

Jew. Woman. American. Those three attributes are as intrinsic to my identity as my own name.  A close fourth would ...

Are Dragons Kosher?

The just-released Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals aims to do for kosher food what Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials did for ...

My Time in Jail

My name is Jason Herman and I am the rabbi at the West Side Jewish Center in Manhattan. I want ...

Megillah on the Run

Purim for Jews is a public riot, but in our family we celebrate Purim quietly.  My brother Daniel can’t hear and our ...

Makkot 24

Six hundred and thirteen.

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