Jewish Texts

I wasn’t in the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. Martin Luther King gave his great oration, and I ...

I am learning the laws of niddah, laws that relate to menstruation and sexuality, with a group of women. It has ...

This year Tu Bishvat begins at sundown on January 24, 2016. May the holiday be a catalyst in bringing your ...

I’ll be honest. I am both fascinated and horrified by many of the daily updates in these still early stages ...

As the calendar flips to December, nightfall comes ever earlier, and many of us don our winter coats for the ...

I recently began studying a new book with my chevruta (study partner), Musar HaTorah v’aYahadut, written by Rabbi Aharon Shmuel ...

Passover is the eight-day Jewish holiday in which we ask questions at the seder table. For one quirky Jewish guy ...

When I got married, there were a million things on my to-do list. There was one thing, one pretty important ...

Over the summer, Larry, the organizer of the minyan that I attend for Rosh Hashanah, sent out an email asking ...

As this summer, and this Jewish year wind down, I’m completing the painting and writing for my fourth illuminated book ...

One of the great disappointments of this summer has been finding out, with the publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set ...

My social media has been abuzz this past week with the commentary on a recent article published by Rabbi Mordechai ...