During a recent visit to New York I stayed with friends in Manhattan. Having visited with them numerous times, the doorman in their building knows me. One morning as I was leaving for the day, it...
In just another day or two our latest annual gift to the Jewish community of New Orleans – SOURCE – will be revealed. This year’s SOURCE will list all of the area’s religious institutions and community organizations as well as...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two days before the U.N. Climate Summit, demonstrators, including a large multi-faith contingent — will descend on New York City to demand urgent action on climate change. The People’s Climate...
For the past several years, and again this year, I have been honored to be chosen to read the Torah in my synagogue on the first day of Rosh Hashanah – and each year I struggle with...
Following on the heels of the controversial forced sale of the National Basketball Association’s San Diego Clippers this summer comes yet another Jewish owner scandal. Due to the leaked racist rants of now former Clippers owner Donald Sterling, the NBA’s...
NEW YORK (JTA) — With the new school year nearly upon us, Jewish educational leaders are scrambling to prepare their teachers to discuss this summer’s Gaza War. The most pressing challenge is to design age-appropriate conversations: At...
It has been a little over a week that celebrated star of stage and screen Robin Williams took his own life, the result of severe depression and many years battling the pressures related to alcohol and drug abuse. But we...
NEW YORK (JTA) — In II Samuel, Chapter 1, when David learns of the death of Abner, he proclaims to his soldiers and all of Israel, “You well know that a prince,...
NEW YORK (JTA) — The conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is spilling over into Europe, where in the past several weeks, Jewish communities have witnessed a chilling display of anti-Semitism, the likes of which has...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — As we approach Tisha B’Av, the State of Israel is at war. The day’s commemoration of sorrow and pain, and urgent calls for introspection and reflection, couldn’t be coming at a more needed time.
