What will it take to get our nation to take the issue of energy independence seriously?
Sure, the supply of fossil fuels is finite, but running out is something for the distant future, right? Global warming is scary, but with the scientists bickering in a language...- Read Story -
In light of the agonizing release of a brutal murderer as part of an exchange to gain the return of the bodies of two slain soldiers, it’s time for Israel to reconsider the use of the death penalty.- Read Story -
What lessons can we take away from all the embarrassing reports about Agriprocessors, the largest kosher slaughterhouse in America, accused of abuse of both animals and workers in its Postville, Iowa plant?...- Read Story -
On the eve of Tisha b’Av 15 years ago, I wrote one of my first columns in my new post here about the rabbinic teaching that the Holy Temple was destroyed in 586 BCE and again in 70 AD on Tisha b’Av (the ninth of Av) because of sinat chinam, or causeless hatred, among the Jewish people.- Read Story -
We were at the Camp Ramah Zimriyah, the songfest, when word came that the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, had returned to their country in caskets, to be buried by a grieving nation.- Read Story -
Ayin me-yesh: Death inverts creation. One second God is renewing each day the divine invention of the world. The next, a freefall into primordial chaos, tohu va-vohu, darkness without a horizon, pure, ruthless black.- Read Story -
Why break a glass at the conclusion of a Jewish wedding? The traditional answer is that it recalls the destruction of the Temple, the difficulties of our history, and by extension,...- Read Story -
Raizel, then 9, lay very still on her stomach, aware that these might be her last moments, here in this patch of Polish potatoes. It was the summer of 1942, and the German Shepherds were sniffing and barking in the night air, hunting for hidden Jews.- Read Story -
