“Out of the blue, late last night, my child bopped into the kitchen to ask me if I knew that once Abraham had [...]

“There was throughout the earth but one language with the same words.” — Genesis 11:1 These words begin the brief tale of the [...]

“These are the legacies of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, wholesome among his generation. Noah walked with God. Noah sired three sons [...]

“Adonai saw how greatly human wickedness flourished upon the earth and how every plan of its heart focused upon evil daily. Therefore, Adonai [...]

This week, we read from parashat Noach, detailing the famed story of Noah’s ark. However, in order to understand this story in depth, [...]

As we move through these Days of Awe, we hope that these readings and excerpts from Sha’ar HaShamayim, our Stephen Wise Temple machzor, will deepen [...]

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 [...]