Pray
Does Prayer Work?
This week’s Torah portion begins with Moses’s request to enter the Promised Land.Deuteronomy 323. And I pleaded with the Lord ...
One Small PRAYvor
Prayer is a very personal and private thing. In fact, to be honest to a fault, let me say that ...
What Playing Games Can Teach Us About Prayer
While I certainly use my iPhone to check my e-mail and make calls, far and away, what really drains my ...
The Power of Gratitude
A simple street scene glimpsed on the early morning commute. A woman in her forties dressed in a sari, a ...
Sleeping on Felix Frankfurter’s Couch
Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available.I want to talk a little more about my family of ...
Is Prayer for Activists?
Our basic premise as activists is human responsibility. We, not someone else, must step up to create change in the ...
Kaddish by Heart
The eldest son was chosen by his father to recite the Kaddish in his memory.Standing at the gravesite where his ...
Funky Kippot in the Diaspora
There is no conformity for liberal Jewish women in the synagogue when it comes to wearing a head covering. Look ...
A Presidential Ritual
Last Monday evening a light rain fell on the Capitol City where I live on 16th Street, a mile up ...
The Holiness of Vacation
Every Thursday afternoon at my yeshiva college in Queens my Gemara rebbe (teacher of Talmud) would offer a short thought ...
Engaging our Teens
At Congregation B’nai Israel, Bridgeport, CT, I’m blessed with a class of almost 30 eighth graders and we meet weekly ...