The closest I got to a bona fide sweetstuff was a banana—and fruit lies outside the purview of the Lenten bailiwick. What was ...

First of all, Rabbi Kahane isn’t with us anymore. Secondly, AIPAC would never have invited him to address their assembly. They wouldn’t want to hear what he had to say. First he would have told all of ...

As we celebrate Purim this year, we should embrace both the joy and the responsibility that come with it. Mordechai’s ...

Everyone goes through it at some point or another. It’s the moment when the early optimism of adulthood ends up with a hard ...

A number of bible verses appear to make reference to solar eclipses, conveying messages of prophecies, power, omens, warnings ...

In the First Reading, Nineveh is described as an “awesomely great city” (v 3) not just for its enormous size and power, but for its enormous sins. The Assyrians had destroyed the northern kingdom of ...

“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19).

I have walked through the Lenten season in a very traditional way. On Ash Wednesday we acknowledge our humanity and our ...

It’s entirely possible that if you’re traveling out and about today, you’ll run across somebody wearing ashes on their ...

If you are a star gazer, an amateur astronomer, or just someone interested in celestial events, get your binoculars and ...

The answer is that even when Hashem hides His face, He is still there. A person wearing a mask is still the same person underneath. The story of Purim is all about hiding and revealing. It is about ...