As we prepare to enter the New Year tonight, we enter with renewed prayers of peace and safety for our friends and family [...]

With the New Year beginning this week, we’ll take a deeper look at one of its most distinctive symbols and sounds: the shofar. [...]

For our Biblical ancestors, the sounding of the shofar was the central mitzvah—obligation—of what came to be known as Rosh Hashanah. Apples and honey, God [...]

It has long been taught that Judaism, as a rule, sanctifies time—not people or places. Our sacred rhythms rise and fall with the [...]

Rabbi Martin Buber, the great early 20th century theologian, told this story of Reb Simcha Bunem, an 18th century Hasidic rebbe. According [...]

I want to return to Muir Woods and the fallen trees for a moment. Actually, I want to return to one tree [...]