I had been thinking about my eldest daughter’s bat mitzvah for a long time. We belong to a Modern Orthodox ...

I also think this is but one of many different ways we can dedicate ourselves to deriving spiritual nourishment from these 49 days.

Freeing yourself from 'the busy trap'

I had been out of town for a few days. When I returned to the ISJL office in Jackson, I ...

Waking up in the morning a definite challenge for me. I hit the snooze button more often than I should. At least ...

How do I explain to my kids why I don't want one?

Children of God.

Perhaps the Jewish people are the embodied principle of life itself, a distillation of humanity evolving toward that which it is not yet?  

Jewish tradition suggests that discovering blessing is always possible — even in hard moments.

American Jews have forgotten their letters and words.