Jewish Thought
Everyone I knew growing up fasted on Yom Kippur and had a Pesach Seder. While not everyone kept kosher or…
It is certainly awful to lose one’s job, but it is worse to lose one’s self.
“The great tragedy of life,” Kierkegaard wrote, “is that it must be lived forward and can only be understood backwards.”
Jewish tradition asserts that the greatest moment and most important event in history was not the creation of the world…
Rabbi Harvey Belovski’s article following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti teaches us how to properly respond to calamities of such…
What is Mesorah? Mesorah is not primarily a corpus of knowledge to master but a process of accessing a chain…
Photo: Vosamo Photography The Story of the Robe When I first arrived in Atlanta, Georgia,…
The Jew who arrives early to the daily synagogue service will soon hear these words chanted: “Ashreinu . . .…
Mesorah and innovation: a contradiction in terms? To understand how these two concepts can coexist, we must first define them.…
Writing in The Sunday Times of London on the Asian tsunami, Minette Marrin (who describes herself candidly as “an unbeliever”)…
MISCONCEPTION: Many religious Jews do not visit Har HaBayit (the Temple Mount) today. This is because we are all presumed…
