Troubled times have come upon us. At the close of Simchas Torah, when numbers started flying in the air, our...

In these difficult days, with the war dragging on and many decisions to be made about confronting our enemy, it...

Simchat Torah morning. Stepping out of the house, worrying about how much candy the kids might consume, I hear an...

The standard Jewish question to moments of hardship is, “Why did this calamity befall us?” It accompanies us always. When...

Our instinctive tendency upon encountering a range of incidents and occurrences is to strengthen existing positions and frame the events...

September 2005, right after the summer of the Gush Katif “disengagement.” As the summer vacation came to an end, we...

My grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, was invited a few years ago on Holocaust Memorial Day to tell her story at...

A friend who once worked at a Jerusalem bank branch recounted a random encounter between two bank employees, one a...

“If a person sees suffering coming upon him, he should examine his actions, as it says (Eicha 3:40): ‘Let us...

On the last day of 1897, just a few months after the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Theodor Herzl’s The...