Torah
Woe to Their Wives
When stories are told, we sometimes see them through the lens of the characters, sometimes from the vantage point of ...
The Future of the Past
In a recent Commentary article, Jack Wertheimer once again takes on the trends in American Jewry – individualism, pluralism, universalism, anti-tribalism, ...
There Are Places I Remember…..
An Orthodox rabbinic colleague Rabbi Zev Farber recently posted on Morethodoxy a piece on the experience of place women have ...
Stand in My Cycling Shoes, Please!
A few days ago I was on my way home from work on my bike when a passenger in a ...
The blessings of a mixed multitude
A few weeks before I began rabbinical school, I took a vacation and went to visit my in-laws where they ...
Torah as Food
If you’ve ever walked down the condiment aisle of a grocery store, you’ve probably been overwhelmed by the ever-expanding number ...
I Don’t Go To Brooklyn
Cruising on Fifth Avenue one day, a taxi is hailed by a man standing on the corner. Entering the cab, ...
Some Purim Torah
Those of us who fall under the general rubric of “believers” may feel a sense of God’s presence in our ...
Hysteron Proteron
And Moses read the Book of the Covenant to the people and they said “All that God has commanded we ...
Returning Home?
The Exodus from Egypt is considered to be the foundational/orienting event for our sacred history. Many commandments are attached to ...