As the calendar ticks through the month of Shevat this year, both Tu B’Shevat and Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday happen to fall on the [...]

In Jewish tradition there are major and minor holidays. Yom Kippur: truly our major holiday. Chanukkah: a minor holiday, though try telling that [...]

Sometimes, lost in the retelling of the Exodus, is the way that nature plays a role in securing Israelite freedom. Part of the [...]

I just finished reading Dara Horn’s book, gruesomely titled People Love Dead Jews. In addition to being a disturbing read, it is also quite [...]

The LA Times columnist, LZ Granderson, questions his own attraction to the HBO series Succession despite the extraordinary levels of dysfunction, cruelty, and sheer greed [...]

As the Biblical Jacob is about to die, he calls his son Joseph to his bedside and asks for Joseph’s sons to be [...]

In one televised version of Joseph and The Technicolor Dreamcoat, Donny Osmond played Joseph. The irony of a quintessential American non-Jew playing the role [...]

All week, I have been sharing some perspectives on the arc of the Genesis narrative leading to Abraham and how some of its eternal [...]

Over the next few days, I’ll be sharing some perspectives on the arc of the Genesis narrative leading to Abraham and how some [...]

Over the next few days, I’ll be sharing some perspectives on the arc of the Genesis narrative leading to Abraham and how some [...]