Jewish Texts

Those of us who fall under the general rubric of “believers” may feel a sense of God’s presence in our ...

And Moses read the Book of the Covenant to the people and they said “All that God has commanded we ...

This week has been a heavy one for the Jewish people and an indescribably difficult one for the parents of ...

Many Jews have ambivalent feelings about the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Thankfully, the Jewish story in the United States has ...

My daughter sings in the choir at her Jewish high school.  Only her mother can attend the annual concert. I ...

About a decade ago I read a Billy Collins poem called “Advice to Writers,” where this former U.S. Poet Laureate ...

“What is Hanukah?”  the Talmud asks and typically each year at this time we are reminded by a variety of ...

Last year, just before Chanukah, a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman came to me for some assistance.  Her four-year-old daughter ...

Here’s the thing about being both an author and a blogger: It makes you impatient. When I write a rant ...

It seems to me that we do not do a lot of talking to each other anymore. There is lots ...

A young man adorned with a black hat, a prayer shawl and phylacteries offers up his morning prayers in the ...