How I Follow the Maccabees' Lead at Hanukkah
What could be a more fitting commemoration of Hanukkah than promoting dialogue about the value of respecting the boundary between religious practice and public life?
What could be a more fitting commemoration of Hanukkah than promoting dialogue about the value of respecting the boundary between religious practice and public life?
To prepare for the High Holidays this year, I did what any rabbi would do: I went undercover as an Uber driver.
Uber, a ride-sharing app that links passengers with drivers, is changing the way we get from point A to B. Drivers make $2.40 per ride to start,
When the words of liturgy are taken too literally, the sacred power of prayer is often lost. In his latest book, Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman offers a way worshipers can transcend the limitations imposed by language.
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I was recently asked to deliver the commencement address to the eighth-grade graduating class at Southern Connecticut Hebrew Academy, a Judaic and secular day school in Orange, CT. The students are from Chabad and Modern Orthodox families.
PBS’ new six-part series Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler premiered on December 16th, 2014. ReformJudaism.org caught up with Feiler, who is the author of six consecutive bestsellers, including Walking the Bible, and writes the "This Life" column for the Sunday New York Times. Here's what he had to say about Sacred Journeys
"The king ... shall not accumulate very much silver and gold. When [the king] is established on his royal throne, he must write a copy of this Torah ... and he shall read from it all the days of his life."
When I first began kindergarten, I was very excited about school. However, in the following years, my enthusiasm dwindled as school became a routine part of life.
Is there a portion more difficult for a 21st century Jew who asks, "what does this mean for me today"?