Genesis

What is YOUR six-word story?

This winter vacation, I slept more than I had in recent memory. Heading to Upstate New York with my wife ...

The Book of Genesis is nothing if not a story of dysfunctional families. Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Hagar, ...

It happens every year like clockwork. I enter the kindergarten where the children are waiting in anticipation. Before I have ...

Commentary on Parshat Noah, Genesis 6:9-11:32 After the great flood, all of humanity shared a single language and lived together ...

I was moved recently in speaking with one of my new students in the Religious School hallway looking sad. I ...

For several weeks now, I’ve maintained a careful silence in my 9th grade Jewish Literature classroom about the politics of immigration ...

I am a fan of The Twilight Zone, the TV series from the 1960s created by Rod Serling (Jewish!). Each ...

There is a relationship in my life that has gnawed at my heartstrings for more than twenty years, and each ...

Simchat Torah: a day for reading — and connecting — the beginning and end of the Torah. The Torah begins ...