March 31, 2021
Before Passover’s festival begins, Jewish households must remove all leaven from their homes, including any products that may have come into contact with leaven. Bread or leaven products are not...
Before Passover’s festival begins, Jewish households must remove all leaven from their homes, including any products that may have come into contact with leaven. Bread or leaven products are not...
A little girl once prayed, “O God, please make bad people good, and please make good people nice.” I am sure most of us know what she meant. We all...
This year, the third day of Hanukkah will coincide with Christmas. There are differences between the two, which are important and significant. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth,...
One of my favorite Bible stories occurs in the book of Genesis, when we find Jacob (the third of the Jewish patriarchs) laboring tirelessly to win the hand of Rachel....
The Kotzker Rebbe, a great Hassidic master, once asked someone, “Where is God?” The person responded, “Everywhere!” “No,” said the Kotzker Rebbe. “God is where He is let in.” Obviously,...
Like many Boomers, the Beatles provided the soundtrack to my teen and adult years. Paul McCartney wrote a song in late 1966 (my first year of college) when his father...
In recent months, I read a very powerful piece in The New York Times that detailed the last day in the life of President George H. W. Bush. It described...