We Jews mourn the millions of deaths of those murdered in the Shoah as well as throughout our long history of powerlessness before the state of

I am ashamed to talk about our new house. It’s a beautiful house, one we could not have afforded before the market crashed. But how

The Fast of Gedaliah, observed the day after Rosh Hashana (September 21), is among the most overlooked of Jewish holidays. Sandwiched between the Days of

Recently I was speaking to a class in my Reform synagogue’s religious school when I learned the significance of Memorial Day. We were discussing the

Like a tree, the Jewish holiday for trees has changed and evolved throughout history. In the 16th century, the kabbalists of Safed transformed Tu Bishvat

Can a person do for others at the same time that he does for himself? Here is one entrepreneurial davener’s story. The Sunday morning service was

The Talmud (Eruvin 65) suggests that a person is de­fined by what he carries in his pockets. Every Thanks­giving, I look into my pockets and

I was 12 when I stopped believing in God. I lost my faith when I first encountered the horrific images of the Holocaust in the