Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, August 4, 2021
The Talmud is our sacred compendium of the Jewish oral tradition that encapsulates some of the greatest wisdom in all of our vast [...]
The Talmud is our sacred compendium of the Jewish oral tradition that encapsulates some of the greatest wisdom in all of our vast [...]
Having a genuine desire to pray and connect doesn’t always lead to what feels like meaningful prayer. Each of us have our own [...]
As your cantor, I like to think of my unofficial role as one who gets sweet, Jewish melodies stuck in your head. Nothing [...]
I'm visiting family in New York this week. We drove out to Long Island to show our daughters where their mother grew up. [...]
What makes a person? This is the question repeatedly set before us by Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor Dan Pagis, who died on [...]
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. —George Bernard Shaw On this day in 1960, Jonathan Gold was born to [...]
Memories can often mean different things to different people. On this day in 1907, former Confederate Brigadier General and U.S. Senator Edmund Pettus [...]
In mainstream film, the triumph of perseverance over adversity often involves protagonists overcoming economic hardships; from Rocky to The Goonies to Spider-Man, Hollywood heroes [...]
If you look for it, you can always find something to be distressed about. There is no shortage of tzuris: the Delta variant, antisemitism, [...]
The Shabbat after Tisha B’Av, the Shabbat which just passed, is known as Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat of Comfort. The name is taken [...]