On the Shabbat on or before the month of Nisan begins–this year, that Shabbat is April 6–we mark what is known as Shabbat [...]

On Saturday, the Shabbat just after Purim, the tradition is to once again bring out a second scroll—this time to read from Numbers [...]

Twice in the weeks before Purim, a second scroll is taken out of the Ark during the Shabbat Morning service, marking two [...]

For a religion and practice deeply rooted in time, it is no surprise that our ancient rabbis spent a lot of time worrying [...]

One of my students from New York turns 6 today, maybe 7. But, he was my student starting 16 years ago. How’s that [...]

Judaism is a religion of Original Repentance, not Original Sin.I do not remember the first time I learned that, or from whom, but [...]

I am not sure that any art exhibit has taken my breath away quite like the exhibit of Black American Portraits at [...]

Carter Woodson, the “father” of Black History set out in 1926 to designate a time to educate Americans about Black history and [...]

While I remember much of a hullabaloo surrounding Y2K, I actually do not remember the front page of the newspaper on January 1, [...]

While I am not usually a follower of such things, a recent journey down a Google rabbit hole led me to learn that [...]