Everyone knows the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes. In short, no one wanted to tell the emperor what he didn’t want to hear, until
After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, by Hillel Halkin (Princeton University Press, 2016), 226 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-14974-5 $29.95
H. G. Wells’ story “The Country of the Blind” explores what would happen if a sighted man found himself trapped in a country of blind
Rabbi Eddie Shostak, Rav-Mechanech at the Hebrew Academy of Montreal, recently drove Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks to a speaking engagement for NCSY Montreal. He took
Now there’s an oxymoronic phrase for you. We are told, on the one hand, zachor, “remember,” and lo tishkach, “do not forget.” But we are
Part II In towns all over America and on many school campuses, sports rule! For day schools a more measured approach is necessary. However, Jewish
The quote above is from Deuteronomy 20:19. Homiletically and exegetically, people are like trees. Kind people offer shelter and feed others, trees provide not only
‘Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence (Schocken Books, NY 2015) 305 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8052-4334-5 $28.95 Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is the leading public
It seems as if special needs sensitivity has always been with us. Sadly, that was not the case in the past, and even today, although
The news media have been paying great attention lately to the high rates of concussions and other injuries among professional as well as young athletes
Part II The classroom is a difficult and disconcerting place for a child with ADD/ADHD. What these children find difficult—sitting still, listening quietly, concentrating—are what
“Human Nature and Jewish Thought: Judaism’s Case For Why Persons Matter,” (Princeton University Press, 2015) 215 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-14947-9 $27.95 Philosophers generally write for other
