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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...