Remembering to cherish: From Station Eleven to JerusalemRemembering to cherish: From Station Eleven to Jerusalem
To Confront Cancel Culture on Left and Right, Take a Page from the Talmud (Tisha Be'av 5780)The Talmud, the Jewish people’s greatest work of collective genius, is the direct consequence of the destruction of Jerusalem and its...
Condensing Our Victimhood (Tisha Be’Av 5779)One feels as if there has been a conscious attempt to minimize the days of mourning and sadness in the calendar, packing as much grief...
Third Time’s a Charm? Tisha Be'Av 5778Whenever the Jews have had sovereignty in their land, they have messed up and lost it. Traditional Judaism has an obsession with...
Tisha Be’Av: A Failed Holiday?If the purpose of Tisha Be’Av is to warn us about the dangers of internecine hatred, it has failed miserably. The year 403 BCE was...
A Day Like Today in JerusalemAs funders, we need to stop watching [the] deterioration of civility from the sidelines. We certainly are part of the problem, but we are...