Prayer

I’ve never, I have to admit, been a  big fan of mikvah. Nearly every month for many years now,  I ...

Last Hanukkah my mother gave me a decorative wall hanging with the text of Asher Yatzar, also known as the ...

By ISJL Education Fellow Dan RingThe ISJL Education Curriculum addresses Israel in many ways at various grade levels. The fifth ...

It was January 2007, almost exactly six years ago. I was sitting in my office, reviewing a dense corporate document ...

Kabbalah is an attempt to understand the brokenness of the universe.The other night, my chevruta (Study partner) and I were ...

I’ve always been suspicious of the “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade” crowd.   Generally, the eternally sunny scare ...

Technology is a marvelous thing. And the many creative ways Jewish professionals have incorporated it into Jewish communal life is ...

So what did you really look forward to last week—Thanksgiving or Black Friday? Gorging on turkey surrounded by all those ...

Three weeks had passed since they had put my daughter’s hand in a cast. A small misstep while working with ...

When I was growing up, a common group activity to do with Jewish teens was some sort of values clarification. ...