Y Yom Kippur -Making This Year Count (This was my talk on Yom Kippur) On Rosh Hashanah our 12 year old daughter sat in on the Natanah...

When we think of a New Year celebration, what comes to mind are parties, champagne, and a midnight toast to the coming year. The Jewish...

There is a time to laugh and a time to weep. Most people think this simple yet insightful truism comes from a song written by Pete Seeger...

Today, August 1st our family is celebrating our one-year Aliyah anniversary. I get chills up and down my arms just writing that...

In 1894 a young journalist named Theodore Herzl attended the Dreyfus Trial in Paris where a Jewish officer was accused of treason. The...

Shavuot could be considered the holiday of the book. Unlike Rosh Hashanah which has the shofar, Chanukah which has the menorah and...

On June 7 1967 at 4:00 am Knesset member Menachem Begin, who had just joined the cabinet of the government of Israel, called the Prime...

It’s bad enough to make a film about a dysfunctional family that alludes to a wealthy Jewish family. But casting Mel Gibson as the...

Today is Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day for the fallen soldiers in Israel. Families, friends, people who want to show they care all came to...

It is an honor to be commemorating Yom Hazikaron L’shoa ugvurah, the day of remembrance for the Holocaust and Heroismin Israel. The day...

My first time visiting Notre Dame de Paris was when I was 11 years old. I grew up going to a French school, and visited Paris regularly...

The story goes back to the work camps during the WWII. Every morning in the camp a group of Jewish workers got up extra early before dawn...

There are some people who by nature alarmists. Those folks are the types who I would hear say, speaking about anti-semitism in the United...

People do not know what to make of ultra-orthodox Jews, yet they are often fascinated by them as well. They are one of us, a member of...

Last Friday I had the thrilling experience of running in the Tel Aviv marathon. Let me qualify that, I ran in the 10 K race as part of...

Shortly after the founding of the State of Israel, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon, one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence,...

Within the first two sentences of the US Declaration of Independence, G-d is mentioned twice. It speaks of ‘the station to which Nature’s...

Tu B’shvat for me as a kid meant giving money to plant a tree in Israel, and eating fruits indigenous to Israel. We would then get a...

Jerusalem of Gold is possibly the most well-known contemporary Jewish song, certainly the most well-known Israeli song. People are...

History documents many revolutions of the oppressed over the ruling powers. In more recent times the French revolution and the Russian...