Life
Wise Fridays: The Most Love
“The highest position in the love of people must be taken by the love of man, and it must extend ...
Don’t Compare Yourself to the Gestapo
You know what I try to avoid? Calling myself a Nazi. I mean, for one thing, it would be false ...
Why I Suddenly Understand Queen Esther
Sometimes I wonder what I would write about if I wasn’t Jewish and my mother hadn’t died. It’s kind of ...
A New Jewish Bieber?
I had someone send me this video featuring the 12-year-old Edan Pinchot singing a version of “Imagine” for an NCSY ...
Non-Jews Take Ketubahs Now, Too
I have mixed feelings about ketubot. On the one hand, they’re beautiful marriage contracts. On the other hand, they’re actually ...
Wise Fridays: Words and Not Money
“Rabbi Isaac said: Anyone who gives a coin to a poor man is blessed with six blessings, but one who ...
A Jewish Response to Suicide
Every year in America, nearly 35,000 people commit suicide. Many Jews are among those who take their own lives, and ...
Wise Fridays: National Responsibility
“Happy is the country and happy the nation that can give an account of what it has taken from others, ...
The Past Isn’t Buried
I’m catching up on the last season of one of my favorite shows, Friday Night Lights, and in an episode ...
No Porn on Shabbat
I have been having an ongoing debate with one of my guy friends about pornography, and why I think it’s ...