Talmud

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 ...

A young man adorned with a black hat, a prayer shawl and phylacteries offers up his morning prayers in the ...

I’m excited about the new Muppet Movie, and who wouldn’t be given great lines like the following from the trailer:Kermit, ...