As we observe Veterans Day this week, it is so important to honor the service and sacrifice of 16 million living Americans who serve or
Rosh Hashanah will mark the shloshim (30 days) since the death of my mother, Aviva Futter z”l. For over 40 years she was a teacher.
I recently flew back from Israel on a United flight. It was United’s second flight resumption since Oct. 7. The picture below is the flight
While at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, I spoke at length with a representative from Kibbutz Be’eri. I had visited the kibbutz the day before
The Jews of Odessa, Warsaw, Kishnive, Kiev, Bialystok, Tripoli, Aleppo and countless other Jewish communities over the last 2,000 years never had an October 8.
Let’s be blunt. Without minimizing the importance of our funding and the various efforts to get supplies to Israel, sitting in the comfort of our
With fall just around the corner, we are about to enter one of two yearly golden stretches for running each year. Now is the perfect
Last Shabbat we read Parshat Miketz. It marked the 10th time we have read this parsha since the fall of 2009, which marked the low
This coming week marks the first birthday of Eliyahu Meir Sorotzkin. That name likely does not ring a bell, but it should. In just a
A recent article about the changing American rabbinate highlighted that being a rabbi today requires a broad range of skills beyond scholarship. In response, rabbinic
