In the movie Fiddler on the Roof, young Leibesh asks the rabbi, “Is there a proper blessing for the Czar?” to which the esteemed rabbi...

Much of what we learned (or, perhaps, didn’t learn) in religious school when we were young is not quite the whole truth. This is not a...

A calendar is really a pretty simple thing; a collection of days, weeks, & months collected onto some sort of grid, paper or electronic,...

There is a remarkable exchange between the rabbis of the Mishnah and those of the Gemara at the end of Tractate Sotah in the the...

Each year, our celebration of the High Holy Days, renews in me a sense of the orderly passing of time. A mild depression sets in when, at...