I'm visiting family in New York this week. We drove out to Long Island to show our daughters where their mother grew up. [...]

If you look for it, you can always find something to be distressed about. There is no shortage of tzuris: the Delta variant, antisemitism, [...]

Collectively, we are in the period known as the “nine days,” a time of mourning leading up to Tisha B’Av, the day on which, [...]

As the sun sets this evening, we enter Av, the saddest month of the Jewish year. The first days of Av are the [...]

Praying for a Miracle We have been reading reports about the building collapse in Surfside, Florida, hoping desperately that survivors will be found. [...]

One of my favorite Hebrew expressions is על טעם וריח אין להתווכח (al ta’am v’reiach ein l’hitvakeach)—“there is no point arguing about taste and [...]

June is known as Pride Month in America as an acknowledgment of the transformational change in perception around LGBTQ+ inclusion over the past [...]

These days when people list the various forms of hatred that must be eradicated, they include racism, sexism, anti-Asian bias, homophobia, and transphobia [...]