Beginning on Rosh Hodesh Av, which we observe today, many Jews commence rituals of mourning leading up to Tisha B’Av (the ninth of [...]

In the Army, they called it “a case of the Mondays.” Some soldiers would always struggle on the first day back from the [...]

“One who shames her neighbor publicly is akin to one who sheds the blood of another.” — Babylonian Talmud Bab Metzia 58B In [...]

“Should you ask yourselves, ‘How can we know that the oracle was not spoken by Adonai?’ Well, if the prophet speaks in the [...]

“The face speaks to me and thereby invites me to a relation… the face opens the primordial discourse whose first word is obligation.” [...]

“We must create a new people, a human people whose attitude toward other peoples is informed with the sense of human brotherhood and [...]