A New-Old Currency For Celebrating Our 250th All Year Long
Imagine if we all simply agreed to start any conversation about America or American Jewish life with an articulation of the things about which we are grateful.
This Week In Wisdom
Two Ways of Greatness – What Jalen Brunson and Elon Musk Reveal About America’s Competing Visions of Human Excellence
What Brunson and Musk actually represent are two genuinely different theories of how greatness is constituted.
Shabbat 250: What John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison Can Teach Us
What it does do is afford a wonderful opportunity to reflect on an old debate about the place of religion in American political life—one that goes back to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
FBI Chaplains in Israel
I returned feeling grateful for the opportunity to touch the lives of those who touch so many other lives, often at moments of intense crisis.
Bearing Witness: Lessons from Then for Now
In a time of deep unrest, in a time when the problems are so big I don’t feel I can do anything, we can do this.
Will You Still Be a Rabbi?
With younger generations relating and connecting so differently than older generations, what happens to the role of the rabbi?
The Bondi Beach attack confirms our fears about antisemitism. But it tells another story, too.
To all those who chant words that lead to violence, I say stop, regardless of your claimed intent.
Doing the Work, Together
We can remind one another: It’s not any one person’s duty to complete the work and no one person can do all of the work.
Sitting in the Sukkah on the Second Anniversary of October 7
In addition to the promise of protection, the sukkah requires permeability.
The Holy Outcast
Especially at this time in the Jewish calendar, our new selves are trying to get through to us, the selves we want to become this year.