Abraham—the Sages were convinced—was a greater religious hero than Noah. We hear this in the famous dispute among the Sages about the phrase that Noah

Rabbi Yehoshua’s Wisdom Horayot 10a tells of Rabbi Yehoshua being prepared for a rare celestial event that could delay his travels (from the William Davidson

I participated in a study of leaders of Jewish institutions, examining what energizes us and what weighs us down. The goal was simple: to be

This week’s piece is dedicated to the refuah of my nephew- Noam Avraham ben Atara Shlomit. May Hashem grant him and all the other chayalim

Parshat Chayei Sarah Over the past years, I have shared with you the contrasting depiction of King David’s final days as described in our haftarah

Parashat Chayei Sarah focuses on two detailed narratives: Avraham’s purchase of a field with a cave as a burial place for Sarah, and his mission

The jihadist pogroms of 1929 referred to as, “Meorot Tarpat” (literally, the “events of 5689”), claimed the lives of 133 Jews, and injured hundreds more.

It has all the hallmarks of an epidemic, spreading from school to school, from class to class, and from neighborhood to neighborhood. It is plaguing

We stand up for a Torah scroll when it is removed from the ark or moved from place to place. Doing so is a sign

There are events and moments that force us to reconsider our fundamental assumptions and relationships. This is true of the tsunami of antisemitism that has

We ascended that mountain when I was young, I was told it’s a holy place, Since my youth, my parents claimed, It was where one

As children we’re taught of “one hundred and twenty and seven,” but there’s a lot more to learn about Sarah’s ascent to Heaven. First it