Shabbat

A couple of years ago, I attended a young adult challah-baking event here in Austin.  Some of the young women ...

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available.I want to talk a little more about my family of ...

This is a guest post by Rabbi Darby Leigh.It was 1984 when Dee Snider first asked me what I wanted ...

First of all, I want to open up my week of blogging by saying how happy I am to be ...

I have been an active participant in a group of Muslims, Christians and Jews that meets two to three times ...

Cruising on Fifth Avenue one day, a taxi is hailed by a man standing on the corner. Entering the cab, ...

Generally, our minds have no problem with coming up with lots of ideas — it’s fairly easy for us to ...

On January 9, 2011, a sweet singer of Israel, Debbie Friedman, passed away.  While her Hebrew yahrzeit is at the ...

In the few months since our book was published, women of different ages have come up to us with stories ...

Every Thursday afternoon at my yeshiva college in Queens my Gemara rebbe (teacher of Talmud) would offer a short thought ...