For years I believed that the phrase "made in the image of God" had become a pious slogan Jews slap on almost every issue -- a phrase in danger of becoming a cliche. In an article in Commentary, and…
In 1977, a man named Frank Collin announced that he planned to march his fellow neo-Nazis through Skokie, Illinois, a Chicago suburb where roughly one in ten residents had survived the death camps.…
Rabbi Jeff Marx has written a new book, Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil War to World War I, and he does something almost nobody has tried before. He tells the story behind the…
"Embarrassed.""Ashamed.""Confused.""Ambivalent.""Frightened."Last week, I sat with a group of Jews in a synagogue. It was an adult education session, and I had asked them to complete the following…
The word is "postmortem," and it fits.For that is what the media has been conducting in the wake of the catastrophe that befell the Titan in the North Atlantic with the tragic loss of five lives.And…
This conversation with author Bruce Feiler could not have happened at a more opportune time.I am in the process of retiring from the full time congregational rabbinate. I am in the process of…
“So, Rabbi, in your more than forty years in the rabbinate, what are those things that surprised you – those things that you never expected, or that you once expected that didn’t actually come to…
If we held a moment of silence for every American who died of COVID it would take nearly two years at a rate of 24 hours a day to cover every name.More than 6.6 million people worldwide and counting…
"That's it!" my friend told me over coffee. "I am so done with Israel! The corruption, the situation with the Palestinians, the racists in the government...How can you still support them? How can you…
I started my rabbinical career 42 years ago, when I served as an assistant rabbi at a large, urban synagogue in Miami, Florida.Those were interesting and challenging times. I arrived in the wake of…
