We hope and expect that our children will carry on our Jewish traditions and values. After spending a small fortune on tuition, summer camps and

This week, the family and friends of David Thaler, z”l, met via Zoom to share memories on his second yahrzeit. I recalled my first encounter

Machloket is not something we want to get involved with. And we see this poignantly from this week’s parsha from Korach and his followers. Machloket

This past week I finished teaching Yeshayahu as part of a podcast series for the OU’s Torat Imecha Nach Yomi initiative. It was a strange

After high school, I had an internship on Wall Street for an investment adviser who worked for a major Jewish businessman and philanthropist. One day,

During the recent protests, society has begun to face important dilemmas regarding monuments that commemorate national heroes whose lifestyles were discrepant with current norms of

Many countries around the world have navigated the first phase of the corona crisis, slowly resuming their “routines” after months in quarantine. This shift affords

When one of my daughters was four years old, she was looking out the front window and shouted in delight, “Daddy! Look! The chocolate truck

What does it mean to “see”? In common vernacular, when people say “I see,” they don’t usually mean to say “I see what is right

Rashi, in this week’s parsha, quotes the midrash that it really should have taken the spies double the time to travel the length and width

There are times in life when we make mistakes. Sometimes these mistakes are grievous or even sinful. When we get a chance to make them

Many centuries before the Austrian physician Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) studied dreams, their meaning for and impact on the individual, the Sages of the Talmud (Berachot