In short, it’s no surprise that appeasement to the more radicalized edges of French society has taken the form of recognizing ...

This Tisha B’Av, let us mourn wisely, not with passive lament, but with active resolve. The survival of the Third Jewish ...

As David was putting him to bed, he turned to his father and said, in a small voice, “I miss you Abba.” Thinking of all the ...

Last Shabbat, we concluded the Book of Bamidbar (“Numbers”)—literally In the Wilderness. Fittingly, both the opening and ...

The Cathars appeared in Europe in the eleventh century, their origins something of a mystery though there is reason to ...

It occurred to me in my long-ago youth that, although my parents named me Deborah after an aunt of my father’s, nothing to do ...

Crash was selficating, that is, exhibiting cognitive inflexibility toward our play, experiencing us as sabotaging what he ...

Early in the story, as a dreaming Alice begins falling, down and down, deeper underground, she wonders whether the fall will ...

Tisha B’Av is the one day on the Jewish calendar when the topic of the unrestrained hatred of other Jews (sinat khinam) should be central; because our sages say that both Jerusalem and the Second ...

It is, and always has been, the Jew among nations: exceptionalized, isolated, and held to impossible standards. And just as ...

Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil ...

To survive, it must become indispensable. It must be welcomed into every sphere of human life not as a threat, but as a tool.