Talmud

Some will tell you that we need less debate in the Jewish community; that for the sake of unity we need ...

This week, the Amazon Kindle version of Jewish Ethics & Social Justice is only $1.99!In Jewish law, we are told ...

Last week we celebrated the holiday of Purim in which we recall the survival of the Jewish people against the ...

There has been a desire to pin down the central complaint of the 99%, which the Occupy Wall Street organizers ...

I have always been struck by car commercials. Car commercials to me seem unique in the world of advertising. Whereas ...

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 ...

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 ...