Category: Other

This week’s Parsha talks about Moshe Rabbeinu saying goodbye to Klal Yisroel saying:

“I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I can no longer go out and come in, and Hashem has told me you shall not cross this Yarden.” 

Rashi…

Seneca, not just a Stoic,
but at his suicide heroic,
being quite unsanctimonious,
once showed his buddy Posidonius
how flasks of glass are blown with breath.

Like human mortals at their death
glass vessels always tend to shatter
when dropped, like…

Spain’s Shameful History Against Jews and Its Dangerous Embrace of “Palestine”

Spain has a long, disgraceful history when it comes to Jews and the Jewish state. From the Spanish Inquisition to the modern recognition of a so-called…

Rabbi Sam Kates-Goldman had a message for his congregants — and his city — on Rosh Hashanah when he acknowledged and offered gratitude to a prominent regular and a special guest in the pews.

Brad Lander, New York…

He said to them, “Today I am 120 years old. I am no longer allowed to come and go before you, for God said to me, ‘You will not cross this Jordan River.’

If Moshe’s age explains why he can’t lead, then why mention that God said he…

We now find ourselves in the midst of the Aseret Yemei Teshuva—the Ten Days of Repentance that begin with Rosh Hashanah and culminate with Yom Kippur. These days are the most spiritually charged of the Jewish year, a time when our tradition…

“We come from different places… different states, different countries… but when we sit together, we share one language — the language of compassion.”

One of the most moving parts of this journey is the community itself. Our group is…

In a recent episode of South Park, Sheila Broflovski, the Jewish mother character, flies to Israel to confront the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. In the middle of the war against Hamas, she accuses him of fueling antisemitism, declaring:…

We often hear a version of what one respectful interlocutor (RI) said in response to my posting this excruciating…

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to speak at the United Nations High Level Week in New York Friday morning and President Donald Trump is participating in talks with al-Sharaa on sidelines of the UN Summit to shape the contours of a…