Sages & Scholars

In the year 2000, I was still a newly-minted Jew, having completed my conversion in March of 1999. As Passover ...

This week’s Torah portion commands us to swear off cheeseburgers. Well not exactly. It was the rabbis that created the ...

“Ever tried, ever failed,” Samuel Beckett once wrote. “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. “  (in  Still Writing: ...

I was a college student doing about 78 mph on my way from Pittsburgh to New York City to visit ...

Maimonides, popularly known as Rambam, was born on March 30, 1135. Maimonides is best known as a philosopher, prolific author and jurist: ...

This past week in synagogues throughout the world we rolled the Torah scroll forward and began reading from the Book ...

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

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