3+ hour, 21+ min ago  (537+ words) We are meant to be learners. Our values guide our path, and our curious, thoughtful questions lead to a greater understanding of who we are meant to become....

3+ week, 14+ hour ago  (997+ words) One verse, five voices. Edited by Nina Litvak and Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist "You shall not covet your neighbor's house, nor his wife, his man-servant, his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's....

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1241+ words) Georgetown asked for my talk in advance, and I was about to send it to them on the day I discussed the petition with the dean. It draws on several of my JJ columns about humility, gratitude, and, ironically, the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (706+ words) What the email does not do, across hundreds of words, is name antisemitism. It does not name a single Jewish student. It does not acknowledge that any of the specific incidents the Committee documented occurred. The institutional response to a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (989+ words) There are moments in a writer's life that feel like more than just an event'they feel like a continuation of a conversation. My recent experience speaking at the Brandeis University Books & Authors program in Tucson was exactly that. It began…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1260+ words) In a quiet Encino neighborhood, surrounded by million-dollar homes, stands a unique house. Owned by Gila Milstein, this is no ordinary home " no single family lives here. Instead, it serves as a haven for dozens of cancer patients and their…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (724+ words) There are soldiers on the front line and we pray for their well being, but there are other soldiers " these brave women are on the front lines, as they stand their post to deliver new Jewish babies into this world…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (810+ words) And the suffering in Israel is a fraction of the global unrest simmering beneath the surface today. We should caution ourselves to use a word like faith, or a lack thereof, here. If these past two years have left us…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (708+ words) Those who arrived at 10: 30 a. m. kicked off the daylong community event with a morning hike. The trek finished at the grave site of Dr. Shlomo Bardin, the late Jewish educator who founded the Brandeis Bardin Institute in 1947 on the grounds of…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (504+ words) When my children were born, I assumed teaching them Torah would be easy. After all, I have a Ph D in Talmud and am married to a rabbi. I worried about plenty of things'sleep schedules, tantrums, and other typical toddler…...