When someone asks me how I am and I reply, I am awake, it’s not meant as sarcasm or as wit, but an acknowledgement that…
The casket filled the room, making it impossible to look elsewhere— not at the frosted glass window panes, the ornate ceiling trim, nor the chairs…
Don’t you dare try to show or wear the Jewish star to draw attention to your cause, and presume they are the same, because they’re…
Tonight, these lights of Chanukah, provide heat for the heart, sustenance for the soul, and strength for the will. Throughout our history, they have girded…
We are more than an incomprehensible number of individual lives lost, and more than a forest of family trees who lost their limbs or whose…
Today we gather to mourn your children, understand your struggles and defeats, your efforts to take back what was taken, and right inequities within our…
I’m not surprised by the recent rise in antisemitism, for our nation’s tale is no smooth sail since ancient bible times. Now it won’t abate…
The entire year before that coming day, my father used to smile and say, Today I am a fountain pen, and laugh and laugh and…
Back in the day, someone was always trying’ to have their way, make us pay, and even today there’s no bouquet. People try to silence…
The Bialy is the persistent roll, steadfast in its refusal to yield to changing times, fast food technologies, or half-baked ideologies. A lean, simple dough…
