Category: Other

We are in the midst of a war. American forces are engaged in a dangerous conflict abroad. Yet instead of rallying around the country and its army, a large swath of the public remains focused on one thing: Donald Trump.

The real question is…

What brings people together is not sentiment.
It is shared purpose.

Parshat Vayakhel opens not with emotion, but with order.

“Moses gathered all the Israelites.”
וַיַּקְהֵל מֹשֶׁה אֶת כָּל עֲדַת בְּנֵי…

Herbert Heller, a Czech Holocaust survivor, did not talk about his ordeal for 60 years. It was his deep, dark secret. Even his wife and children had no idea what he had gone through as a youth. But one day, he finally recounted his singular…

In the quiet of our bomb shelter after the siren faded and the bickering died down, I asked my children something I had been avoiding: why they thought we were fighting.

Alon, seven, answered first. “To stop Iran getting a nuclear bomb and…

This week’s parashah, Vayakhel–Pekudei, describes the construction of the Mishkan, the Sanctuary in the desert. The Torah records every contribution — gold, silver, copper, fabrics, wood, oil, and precious stones — with extraordinary…

I run. A lot.

I run every morning long before the sun comes up, or late at night long after it has gone down. I run with four essentials in the FlipBelt around my waist: a key to the house, my cell phone, my headphone case, and my pepper…

A Question That Followed Me

Sometimes a broken heart sends you on a journey. At thirty-nine, that journey brought me to a synagogue in Boca Raton, Florida, and back to a question I have been trying to answer for years.

Why did you drift away…

CLAN DESTIN[ED]?

The clan plan, a rose by another name, but NOT as sweet
Israel must take sovereignty in Gaza and Judea/Samaria