"Veele toldot Yitzchak ben Abraham, Abraham holid et Yiztchak". "And these are the generations of Yitzchak, Abraham's son: Abraham begot...

"Those were the days of Sara" ... This is how this parashah begins, an enigmatic beginning, which is contradicted by the name of the...

There is a global scourge that a few are concerned with. It is an evil that separates. An evil that divides and does not allow people to...

What is the age limit for a person to change his course? Is there that limit? Many times you have heard a phrase like: "at my age, I can...

Who is Noah? We know he was a simple man, yes. We know that he was a righteous man in HIS generation, and that surely in another one he...

Does anyone remember what happened after the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Gan Eden, paradise? Some may mention one or two characters,...

First of all, I want to thank you ALL. It was really wonderful for me to feel how each and every one of you has received me in the...

Perhaps you heard of the recent kerfuffle when Meyers Leonard, a player for the NBA's Miami Heat, was found to have used an all-too...

Most of us have routines; set ways in which we like to do things. Such routines are comfortable and comforting. If a routine is upset for...

As we come into January, many of us will be watching football, whether of the College Championship variety (Go Buckeyes!) or the...

I sometimes wonder if other ethnic groups and religions spend as much time worrying about their ultimate survival as we Jews do. I think...

At one point in Junior High School I shared a desk with a particular young lady. Between things, we would talk about this and that and in...

Multiple times during the course of our Yom Kippur services we recite the confessional, the Viddui, and the Al Chets. Together, they...

One of the things I enjoy about teaching our children, particularly the younger ones, is that they will say what is on their minds, not...

Have you seen the news from Israel on local media recently? Neither have I. I was, in fact, struck by the utter paucity of stories from...

Trying to make an involved subject as simple as possible, the Conservative Jewish rules for Shabbat are pretty much the same as any...

The shalosh regalim, or pilgrimage festivals, are the central holidays mandated by Torah. Each of these three celebrations - Pesach,...

This was sent to me some time ago without attribution. I don’t know if it is copyrighted or not but it is well worth the read. As we...

The section of Torah dealing with the ritual of the red heffer, from the portion of Hukat, opens with the words zot hukat hatorah...

In October of 1916, with regard to the domestic issue of temperance, the Reverend Charles F. Aked stated that: “It has been said that for...