“There’s the Jewish People—and Jewish people,” the larger Jewish community and individual, often unsung Jews. “He understood both.”
Rabbi Miller played an active role as a volunteer, often as the public face and voice of the Jewish community, on behalf of the JCRC, Holocaust survivors, Soviet Jews and…
Covid-19 has spurred an unprecedented interest in aliyah. Why?
“It’s a major game-changer,” restoring millions of dollars of potentially lost salaries to members of the Orthodox community.
Why camps play such an important role
“So, who’s your latest victim?” That was the sarcastic question a colleague at work—a Sabra who has picked up the snarky US sense of humor—would ask me every Thursday or…
“Rabbi, I prayed for my zeidy to get better, but he died. Didn’t God listen to my prayer?”
I wanted to make my extended time in our family home over Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah memorable. I didn’t realize how memorable Nature would make the chagim.
