Bradley Scott’s shout-out to the White House, silent so far about the kidnapping of three Israeli youth this week, could also be directed at an
Back in the mid-’70s there was a groundbreaking female superhero on Saturday morning TV called Isis. An American high school science teacher found a magic
We are not the first Jews to live with enormous uncertainty about the future. Uncertainty, however, can be both paralyzing and liberating. When the Jewish
Thinking about the three Israeli teenagers, Eyal, Gilad, and Naftali, who were just recently kidnapped, the whole horrific story really hits home for me in
Dear President-elect Rivlin: I join with the rest of the Jewish world in wishing you congratulations and offering thanks to you for taking on the
A centuries-old manuscript unrolls on a computer tablet on the cover of Rabbi Yaakov Blau’s new book, Medieval Commentary in the Modern Era: The Enduring
Although Israel has been at the heart of day-school curricula for decades, we have known little about how schools teach and students learn about Israel—at
Shaarei Orah, The Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck, hosts Rabbi Dr. Yigal Tsaidi, Scholar in Residence, June 27-28th, 2014 for Shabbat Hukat. Rabbi Tsaidi studied at
On a recent ski trip to Utah, my granddaughter introduced me to Instagram. We were enjoying a majestic view from the chair lift when she
The twentieth yahrzeit of the passing of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, z’tl, has been greeted with a flood of retrospective article
(originally printed in the Times of Israel, reprinted with permission of the author) Oh, I wish I could write a love story about my people,
Shortly before we left Montreal, I saw a young man at the urging of his mother. He agreed to come, but didn’t understand what the
