Israel

“There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.” So says the author of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) in a ...

Is anti-Semitism like pornography? Do we know it when we see it? Absurd on the one hand, this analogy helps ...

As of yesterday, Monday July 28th, we Jews have begun “The Nine Days.”You may not know what I’m talking about, ...

A week after coming home from a month in Israel, my soul remains immersed there. The tension in Israel, charged ...

My husband does not do birthdays. When I first met him over 20 years ago, this truly puzzled me. Birthdays ...

Jon Stewart, in his July 21 episode of The Daily Show, viscerally demonstrated what many of us, I am sure, ...

I used to think that there were two different mindsets when it came to living Jewishly: the experience of those ...

In our corner of the world, Temple Sinai of New Orleans and The St. Charles Ave. Presbyterian Church have been ...

When I was young, I was drawn to the study of Torah as a way to get closer to God ...

Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 15th is a fast day in Jewish tradition. It is called the 17th of Tammuz, named after ...

With the recent violence and escalation in the Middle East, my mind is on Israel. With every report of a ...