People sometimes point to the ending of the book of Esther as a Jewish massacre—the disturbing part of the story that is supposedly suppressed in
(in honor of Adar 7, Moshe Rabbenu’s yahrzeit) In the past few decades, Aaron Schmuel Tamares (1869-1931), a lonely, laconic, and largely unknown talmid hakham
These Sages help remind us to look at the chaos around us, to really see it, to analyze, it and begin to respond to it.
Did you know Jacob had a daughter along with all of his 12 sons? Her name was Dinah. Does Dinah get treated like a character
To contextualize violence does not mean to rationalize it. The violence in Israel/Palestine has a context: the occupation and creeping annexation.
Violence, pain and occupation become the dimly lit hospital in which generations are born and the cemetery in which they are buried.
Explosions Currently, Israel is engaged in a Gaza-Southern Israel back and forth of rockets and airstrikes. A teen was killed in a Golan Heights explosion originating from Syria and
It’s worth repeating that we should all be working and/or (at the very least) hoping for the safe return of three teenagers who were kidnapped