ethics
We Don’t Really Talk About Purim
Before we crash headlong into the various celebratory, lighthearted posts about Purim, I want to draw your attention to something: ...
Jewish Camp Scholarships: Are We Being Mensches?
Like many Jewish children, my kids live for camp! They count down every day of the year until it’s time ...
Derek Jeter’s Legacy — “Know Before Whom You Stand”
Last week, Derek Jeter — the New York Yankees’ star shortstop for almost 20 years — announced that 2014 would ...
Airing The Dirty Laundry and Jewish Communal News
As someone who has written articles about issues impacting the Jewish community for publications like The Huffington Post, The Denver ...
Bridgegate vs. God
Bridgegate.The story broke two weeks ago, and updates are still front-page news.Allegedly, New Jersey Governor Christie’s leadership team closed lanes ...
Terror in Afula, Seen from Afar
A numinous dream, last Wednesday:I am on Kibbutz Ein Dor, near the city of Afula in Northern Israel, visiting my ...
Subway sleeper, Rabbi returns cash: when people do the right thing
You may have caught a couple of stories that have been spreading virally over blogs and Face book the last ...
‘Tis the season of the farmers’ market
Today’s lunch included stir-fryed Purslane. Until two weeks ago, I’d never heard of it or, to my knowledge, tasted it ...
Petraeus: When leaders let us down
Two days ago my colleague, Amy Small, wrote a powerful piece putting the news glut on the Petraeus scandal into ...
The Command to Forget
Deuteronomy 2419. When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you ...