Inspiration
After eleven straight months, I wasn’t ready to give it up. Three times a day I had the chance to…
I always thought tragedy was something that happened to other people: the fatal car crash, the devastating diagnosis, the…
Caryn Esther Pollak was born at a time the world believed that children with Down syndrome could never learn to…
While the congregant spoke about the difficulty in finding meaning in a child’s death, a visitor sitting on an aisle…
How fitting it would be to ask the Prophet Elijah to step into Auschwitz right then and there to herald…
With Rosh Hashanah approaching, we asked leading thinkers and educators to share with us their favorite books or seforim they…
In the mikvah’s waiting room, I am engrossed as I watch my dear friend Jenna, clad in a…
By Brian Ross Several years ago, I arrived on location for a film shoot in North Carolina. As I settled…
“Rabbi, we received a letter from a Jewish inmate who’s worried that his blanket contains both wool and linen. What…
During my first year of practice with a major Chicago law firm, I applied to the rabbinical school of the…
Teaching tefillah can be a hard task across school. A new approach might bring greater connection to our students.
