pirkei avot

We are always capable of being better- and so is everyone else

Jewish tradition reminds us that being happy with what we have is so important.

Make for yourself a teacher, acquire a friend, and judge every person favorably. (Pirkei Avot 1:6)

Leadership is on my mind this week. We elected a new president of the United States, a leader with a ...

My Jewish life has always been active. I became a Bat Mitzvah right on time, inherited the position of cantorial ...

(Yes, spoilers. Get over it)In Emily Nussbaum’s superb New Yorker essay about the television series “Marvel’s Jessica Jones,” she asks, ...

We read in Pirke Avot, the Ethics of the Sages: “Who is happy?” The answer: “The one who is satisfied ...

I do a lot of commuting, and one thing that makes that time fly by are courses by The Teaching Company. With ...

When my husband and I were house hunting 16 years ago, we visited a house that was so cluttered, even the ...

As this summer, and this Jewish year wind down, I’m completing the painting and writing for my fourth illuminated book ...