We all put up walls. But there are different kinds of walls. There are walls of distrust that we put up around ourselves as protection

“Our Father, our King! For the sake of our forefathers who trusted in You, and whom You taught statutes of life, so too, be gracious

Following a recent meeting between increasingly concerned Jews and the government agencies charged with protecting them, I approached the senior agent representing the FBI and

The world is not a peaceful place right now. War is raging, political polarization in America is growing, and the divisions in Klal Yisrael that

Sefer Vayikra is when we tend to find creative ways to discuss anything but the parsha. During this period between Purim and Pesach, when the

“LaYehudim haysa orah v’simcha, the Jews experienced light and joy.” We have entered the second month of Adar, a time when our feelings of joy

We are all rightly preoccupied with the profoundly unsettling events of the past months. War, loss and dislocation have traumatic effects that are currently being

There is a story that I regularly repeat at our family Pesach Seder. It is hard to repeat it without crying. I share it with

Should we wear our hearts on our sleeves? Two of the priestly garments of the kohein gadol were adorned with the name of God: it

In today’s horribly fractured political climate in both America and Israel, we need leadership that understands that there is nothing as divisive as winning. Every