There is an image that haunts us across the millennia, fraught with emotion. It is the image of a man and his son walking side-by-side,
So familiar are we with the story of Abraham that we do not always stop to think about what a strange turn it is in
I once had the opportunity to ask the Catholic writer, Paul Johnson, what had struck him most about Judaism, during the long period he spent
There are festivals that give rhythm and structure to the Jewish year. Examining them carefully, however, we see that Sukkot is unusual, unique. One detail—which
(This article was published in The Huffington Post on Oct. 6, 2011) Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement—is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It
With Ha’azinu, we climb to one of the peaks of Jewish spirituality. For a month, Moses had taught the people. He had told them their
One reason religion has survived in the modern world despite four centuries of secularization is that it answers the three questions every reflective human being
In a parsha laden with laws, one in particular is full of fascination. Here it is: If a man has two wives, one loved, the
At a dinner to celebrate the work of a communal leader, the guest speaker paid tribute to his many qualities: his dedication, hard work and
On 14 October 1663, the famous diarist Samuel Pepys paid a visit to the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Creechurch Lane, in the city of
It is one of the most important words in Judaism, and also one of the least understood. Its two most famous occurrences are in last
In a much-watched TED Talk, Simon Sinek asked the following question: How do great leaders inspire action? What made people like Martin Luther King and
