Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins shares a story that helps us in our preparation for the New Year: After a long, hard climb up the mountain, the spiritual seekers finally found themselves in front of the [...]

The events of the past few weeks in Afghanistan are horrifying on so many levels. But the true magnitude of the horror dates back decades, centuries even. The human toll of the United State’s longest [...]

This is a month of preparation leading up to the Ten Days of Repentance. Our tradition is filled with teachings whose purpose is to inspire us to do the work of teshuvah. Here’s a beautiful one [...]

Sunday begins the Hebrew month of Elul, a time of preparation leading up to Rosh Hashanah, the New Year, and the beginning of the Ten Days of Repentance (aseret y’mei teshuvah). It’s that time of [...]

I'm visiting family in New York this week. We drove out to Long Island to show our daughters where their mother grew up. We stopped at a farmstand and bought some corn and tomatoes. Long [...]

If you look for it, you can always find something to be distressed about. There is no shortage of tzuris: the Delta variant, antisemitism, the demonization of Israel through ice cream boycotts, wildfires raging out of [...]

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, according to tradition, both the First and Second Temples were destroyed. Personally, [...]

As the sun sets this evening, we enter Av, the saddest month of the Jewish year. The first days of Av are the heaviest leading up to the 9th of the month, the day on [...]

Praying for a Miracle We have been reading reports about the building collapse in Surfside, Florida, hoping desperately that survivors will be found. First responders, including a team sent from Israel, are working through the [...]