Religion
“We gratefully thank You… for Your miracles that accompany us daily.” (Shemoneh Esrei, Siddur) The first of the Ten Commandments,…
On March 21, 2002, a suicide bombing on Rechov King George in Jerusalem killed three people and injured eighty-seven. Though…
Below is a synopsis by Rabbi Steven Weil of a brilliant and influential speech delivered in 1975 by Rabbi Joseph…
My grandparents left me Emunah Beyond their rheumy gazes And their nightmarish dreams Was a stillness —
Children born in the post-Holocaust era of the 1940s, 50s and 60s grew up knowing their parents had gone through…
Memories of a Third-Generation American Assimilated Jew and How She Found Her Way Back to the Land Her Soul Calls…
A selection of responsa from Rabbi Ephraim Oshry, the spiritual leader of the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust.
“There were always choices to make,” recalled the Austrian-born Jew Viktor Frankl after enduring three years in Auschwitz and concentration…
As flames enveloped the Warsaw Ghetto, a Polish resident of the city’s “Aryan” side, observing the incineration of his Jewish…
I begin, and end, in the same place: decimation.
In my Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suffering, I wrote that those who place truth over happiness often get…
