We Jews are a lunar people — our calendar is driven by the cycle of the moon. The new Hebrew month begins [...]

Consider for a moment the purpose of a birthday celebration. We gather to rejoice in the being of the person whose birth [...]

I knew Brad Lander when we were teenagers. Not well. We weren't close friends. But we moved in the same circles, NFTY conventions, [...]

This evening of Shabbat falls on Juneteenth, a federal holiday since 2021. It relates in powerful ways to core values in our Jewish [...]

This Shabbat has special personal resonance for me. Parashat Sh’lach L’cha is the parasha of my bar mitzvah — just a few years back, [...]

June is Pride Month — named for the Stonewall Uprising of June 1969, when a movement for full inclusion and equal rights [...]

This Shabbat is Shavuot, the holiday that celebrates the giving of Torah at Sinai. And as is the custom on Shavuot, we read [...]

This Shabbat we begin a new book of the Torah. B’midbar (Numbers) opens with a census. God instructs Moses: שְׂאוּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ כָּל־עֲדַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵלs’u [...]