As a congregational rabbi for more than 40 years many of the questions that I receive from congregants related to questions about the celebration of the holiday of Passover. Before...

In several weeks the Jewish people will be celebrating the Festival of Passover. The Sabbath before Passover is called “the Great Sabbath,” or in Hebrew, Shabbat HaGadol. The Bible indicates...

It has been less than a month since our 45th president has been sworn into office, and already he has enacted many executive orders. One of his first ones was...

Unlike Passover, one of Judaism’s major holy days, Hanukkah is considered a minor one in rabbinic thought. That being said, it is one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays....

There is an amazing story in Jewish tradition that took place on the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the Jewish year. All of the Jewish people were gathered...

Every four years I look forward to the quadrennial summer tradition, and this summer I spent evenings watching the Olympics and cheering for Team USA, and especially for my favorite...

In 1973 the late Oliver Sachs, a professor of clinical neurology at the Albert Einstein Medical School, wrote a fascinating book called “Awakenings.” In his book, Sachs chronicled his experience...