A person should be sure he sees someone doing wrong before he points his finger. In this week’s portion (19:16) we learn that God wants
Dear Shayna B., I hate camp food and so I skip lunch everyday and I’m hungry every day. What should l do? Sincerely, Hungry Hanna
In this week’s parsha, Moshe explains the laws of justice and doing battle. One of the laws is not to destroy trees in the field.
Pro-Israel students and faculty are steeling themselves for a fight when classes resume next month at the 25 campuses of the City University of New
If you’ve just received a tax refund, an inheritance, a bonus at work or another unexpected windfall, you might wonder what you should do with
Anti-Zionism is merely today’s cloak for classical antisemitism. One topic preoccupying pundits who write about Israel is whether anti-Zionism amounts to antisemitism. Those who claim
Rabbi Sacks, zt’’l, had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book ‘Lessons in Leadership.’ One of the gifts
An Erev Yom Tov Call It is a magnificent story about Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik recounted by my cousin Rav Aharon Adler in his new
Parshat Re’eh This week’s haftarah is familiar to us from both Parshat Ki Teitzei and Parshat Noach, and, as a result, I wondered whether I
On Sukkah 25a, several late Amoraim deduce, from the Biblical term kapot, the precise contours of taking the lulav branch—that it isn’t the hardened lulav
Aside from that common verb ראה, there are many other verbs for seeing or looking in Tanach. I am going to discuss three of them:
To be a Jewish educator is to enable others to think, feel and act differently—today, tomorrow or sometime in the future—through an encounter with one
