Monthly Archives:December 2024

As a child, I was never afraid of the dark. The Things-That-Go-Bump-In-The-Night didn’t scare me. I was too in love with the magic and the ...

I was at Shabbat dinner with some BJ members last week, and the conversation turned to the 20th-century anti-facist Italian philosopher, Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci is ...

The haftarah for Vayishlah narrates Obadiah’s prophecy of doom targeted at the Edomites, the descendants of Jacob’s twin brother Esau.

Every year since I was ordained, I have set a new “spiritual mantra” for the year at Rosh Hashanah. In past years, these mantras have ...

West Side Campaign Against Hunger, Citymeals on Wheels, God’s Love we Deliver Winter Feast, Hope for New York “His Toy Store,” and Bowery Mission are ...

A little over three months ago, my heart shattered as I listened to Rachel Goldberg Polin eulogize her beloved son, Hersh, after he had been ...

This haftarah, from the book of Hosea, is, to me, one of the more problematic in the canon. It contains extremely violent imagery, in this ...