It is truly amazing, at least to me, how people develop their ideas of what is right and what is wrong. While I think we would all agree that most of this hopefully happens when we grow up and is taught to us by our parents, siblings, grandparents, etc. What I find so remarkable about [...]
Read MoreAs I was sitting at the Jewish Federations 4th Annual Festival of Jewish Music, I made an important realization about why many people feel that it is difficult to be Jewish during this time of year. While in the secular community, Hanukkah is represented as the Jewish “alternative” to Christmas, in actuality it is [...]
Read MoreI was struck recently by the idea of prayer and why we pray. In fact, it was posed to me by one of my teens in a teen service I conducted for the High Holy Days. The idea of why we pray was not so much of the reason, but more so about what our [...]
Read MoreUpon arriving into the office today, I was struck not by the amount of emails I had, but what most of them were concerned about…the release of Gilad Shalit. What I find most interesting is that of what the world’s response has been towards Israel and the Israeli’s prisoner swap with Hamas. Has there been [...]
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