This is a loaded question with many topics to address. I imagine some of what I say may be unpopular, but that won’t stop me. Let’s tackle each issue and hopefully it will be informative to readers ...

All the elements of Sefer Vayikra – from the Temple offerings to the prohibitions of incest, from holiday observance to loving our neighbor – contribute to the tapestry of sacred living the Torah ...

I wasn't bored as I cut out articles from The Jewish Press to read while waiting for appointments or at simchas. After all, my table neighbors spent a lot of time playing with their phones.

The servitude we experienced in Mitzrayim should sensitize us to human suffering. We know what being a foreigner feels like and should thus care for those in similar situations.

While no one ever knows for sure about these things, we are intrigued not only by the advent of the anti-Hamas outcry, but that it was allowed to continue for several days. Plainly, something is afoot ...

A person should never bring himself to undergo a test of faith, as David, king of Israel, brought himself to undergo a test of faith and failed.

There have been moments of national unity in the U.S., where Americans banded together after terrifying circumstances. Think of the kindness and care shown to one another after 9/11. Sadly, that grand ...

As human beings, we are naturally resistant to external instruction or direction, preferring to do things only when we want to do them.

The kingdom of Israel will only endure if the heads of the people assemble together (keep the peace amongst themselves).

It was well known that Jack Benny celebrated his thirty-ninth birthday every year. When Benny died in 1974, he had turned thirty-nine a total of forty-one times.

But if "all Jews are Jews, except the Jews I really don't like" is your stance, then you don't actually believe in achdut.

As we sit at our seders this year, we are not only reliving the past; we are living in the present. We are living through a time when the Jewish people are once again fighting for freedom.