Seventy-five years ago, I celebrated my bar mitzvah in Kansas City, Missouri. It was a festive and memorable occasion but the memory of one peripheral feature of the event has troubled me to this very ...

The von Trapp Family Singers, undisputedly one of the most iconic families in cinematic history, was a group formed from the family of former Austrian naval commander Georg von Trapp (1880-1947), who ...

In our encounter with the Divine that characterizes these days leading up to Rosh Hashana, we consider our faults and shortcomings and endeavor to do better – and in doing better, to draw nearer to ...

Elul is a time for self-reflection. There is a difference between feeling guilty about something we've done and feeling ashamed of who we are. Guilt says, "I did something bad," shame turns that into, ...

As America marks 250 years since its founding, I’d like to focus on a story rarely told with the prominence it deserves: the central role Jewish Americans have played in building the nation's ...

This coming Shabbat, September 4-5, is the 23rd of Elul 5786. When the 23rd of a Jewish month is on Shabbat, it usually means that we bentch Rosh Chodesh, which will be on the following Shabbat (or ...

We all know a kid like Chaim. Maybe he is in your son’s class, or he rides with him on the school bus. Maybe he was even in your child’s bunk last summer. At first Chaim seems like a regular kid, ...

NEW YORK— More than 150 Sephardic rabbis, educators, rabbinic students, and lay leaders from across the United States and from Israel, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Germany, Sweden, England ...

Michael Wildes, the mayor of Englewood, NJ; lawyer; and law professor will be joining Columbia Law School this fall to teach a course in Business Immigration, Visas, Workforce, and Compliance Law.

Rabbi Beer and Morah Reich had such a wonderful time visiting some of our current and former students at camp today! Donuts, soda, lots of smiles, and even more meaningful connections. We love staying ...

As Mr. Nathan walked home, he saw his neighbor’s son, Effy, fixing his bike. It was quite old and rusty and dented in many places. One of the spokes was even broken. “Hello, how are you?” Mr. Nathan ...

The Medrash Devarim Rabbah (4:3) says that when Hashem said these words on Har Sinai, from that time, “evil and good do not emerge from the Mouth on High.” Rather, on its own, evil comes upon those ...