Have you ever been in trouble and then somehow you managed to extricate yourself? In American slang, you’ve gotten “off the hook.” The origins of
ֿֿהוּא (הלל) הָיָה אוֹמֵר, אִם אֵין אֲנִי לִי, מִי לִי (אבות א:יד) It’s On Me Though many help us throughout our lives, in the end
Amos Oz (1939-2018) was a famous secular Israeli writer. He was the author of 40 books and was a winner of the Israel Prize. I
“Are you really sure you want to do this?” Ten years ago, Rabbi Tully Harcsztark posed that question to me when I interviewed for a
I recently had the opportunity to visit the Holocaust Museum of Porto, which opened to the public in April 2021. It is the first Holocaust
The iconic story of the mother and her seven sons recounted in Gittin 57b is well-known and often repeated. It is most certainly etched in
The following story is adapted from an article written by my mother for the Jewish Press in Omaha, Nebraska in 1990 after my father’s passing.
We the children of the second generation Awake in the morning and we know that on our arm We inherited a tattoo, a number not
As we enter into a period of Holocaust remembrance and commemorations, we must bear in mind that the Shoah was about more than the physical
(Courtesy of Claims Conference) Gideon Taylor, president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), today published the “100 Words” project, a
“It is not, in Christian countries, with the Jews as with other peoples. Men say, ‘This is a bad Greek, but there are good Greeks.
No, I was not in Cancun, nor was I in Orlando, Fort Lauderdale or Georgia. My program took place in Rochester, New York, on the
