On Sunday I’m flying to Israel, my third trip since October 7. This time I’m leading a solidarity mission with members of our Wise family. We have three primary goals: 1) bearing witness to the atrocities, [...]

A few years ago, right before the pandemic, I met the Pulitzer prize-winning author, Doris Kearns Goodwin, at a writers conference in Rancho Mirage. She was speaking about her book, “Leadership: In Turbulent Times,” which [...]

I remember a conversation I had with my Uncle Alan a few years before he died. We were discussing a challenging moment that someone close to us had recently gone through and he said, “Well, [...]

I think I first learned about the Cambodian genocide when I was in elementary school, probably when I was in fourth grade, in 1979. Maybe it was as part of a current events curriculum, or [...]

This is the last Shabbat of 2023. Most would agree that this has been the worst year for the Jewish People and for Israel since the Shoah. What an awful sentence to read (and to [...]

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison “One more try” is a central message of this week’s Torah [...]