This week’s Kavanot focus on some of the core concepts of the Jewish Mussar practice, called middot. To learn more visit the website. Equanimity: מנוחת הנפש – Menuchat [...]

This week’s Kavanot focus on some of the core concepts of the Jewish Mussar practice, called middot. To learn more, visit the website. Humility: ענוה – Anavah Patience: סבלנות [...]

Though I wouldn’t call myself a practitioner, I am intrigued by the ancient Jewish path to self-improvement called Mussar. Mussar is defined as: …a treasury of [...]

Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year falls in the shadow of the death of Sidney Poitier. Reading the many essays written about [...]

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 [...]