Post A Funny Way to Celebrate After seven glorious days of the Sukkot festival, also known as the Feast of Tabernacles, the party is still not over! Today, the eighth day, is Shemini Atzeret, the Eighth… Read More
Post A Lesson From a Willow I grew up reading the Tolkein series, so when I first set foot in a Yeshiva (school for Torah study) and saw a room full of bearded men learning in… Read More
Post A Message From King David to the Nations Though the Book of Psalms was written by King David, one of Israel’s greatest kings, his heartfelt words speak to everyone. John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the… Read More
Post “Avocados are Bad for You!” and Other Absolute Truths In 1912, as the women’s suffrage movement was beginning to pick up steam, the brilliant former President of Princeton University and the newly elected President of the United States, Woodrow… Read More
Post Do You Walk With God or Before God? The Biblical story of Noah is probably the most universally known story. Everyone knows that Noah built an ark, brought in the animals and saved his family. But perhaps one of… Read More
Post Don’t Forget the Kids! Today, the second day of the Sukkot holiday immediately following the Sabbatical year, is a very special day – a “once in seven years” kind of day! In Biblical times,… Read More
Post Four Species or Seven Species? I distinctly remember my first Sukkot holiday (Feast of Tabernacles) in Israel. I had arrived a few months earlier at Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu directly from Manhattan. The day before the… Read More
Post How Far Away is Heaven? Kids ask the toughest questions. “How far away is heaven?” It is surprising how often the answers can be found in the Bible or in Jewish sources. But in this… Read More
Post How Teenagers Defeated the Soviets When the Communists took control of Russia in 1917, they quickly moved to suppress one of Communism’s greatest internal enemies – the practice of Judaism. With each passing year, the… Read More
Post The Creation Story and Peace in the Middle East An old friend of mine used to learn at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva (school for Torah study) in Jerusalem. While learning there, he used to visit Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, a… Read More
