As I look back at my grandparents, I’m filled with wonder. Now, I’m a grandparent, too. And by the way, we never called them Bubbe or Zayde. It wasn’t cool then. Only...
It’s Saturday and I need to write a story – but wait a minute. It’s Shabbos – and you can’t push a pencil across paper on Shabbos, say the rabbis. The Chumash...
He had returned; just as he promised two years ago, the day he left us. Who could forget that day? He walked out of Shtetle Grinz at the head of a procession...
What a genius our Moses was: jurist, diplomat, five-star general, navigator, and lawgiver. And what a job he had leading our stiff-necked ancestors through the sandy wastes of Sinai.
Every culture treats its mothers differently. If you had the time (about two years) a careful analysis of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic holy books would reveal a significant difference in their...
We Jews are the inspiration of every innovation in the wide, wide world – maybe a slight exaggeration, but basically correct. We held the torch of truth in every nook and cranny...
“Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.” Genesis 15:13
It is not true that Purim was initiated by our sages for Jewish husbands to get slobbering drunk in the presence of the congregation – though drunkenness is recommended. And I once...
We 21st Century folks, looking back at Eden, see it as the paradise that our Chumash (Five Books of Moses) describes. No work, no bills, no taxes, none of those miserable New...
