WORDS THAT BREATHE

My father-in-law Murray November and his photographs illuminate the intense soulfulness of animals.

A Hasidic story about bitterness and sweetness, and our chance to taste the sweet.

Life Lessons from Shimon Peres, as conveyed by David Sackman, from David's hour long meeting with the 90+ year old former Prime Minister of Israel.

Synagogues, like our own Congregation Or Ami, are retooling, experimenting, failing at times, and picking themselves up to innovate anew. The results are exhilarating! Jewish Start Up Synagogues – often the older shuls that are renewing themselves – are exciting and exceedingly hopeful.

After attending the Republican Presidential Debate at the Reagan Library, I came away with 5 impressions that related Jews and the Jewish future.

Do you know what happens when we fail to correctly differentiate between need and want? In the space between those two concepts, that’s where sin is born.

Be the blessing you intended to be and buck the trend. When deciding whether to kvetch or kvell about the High Holy Day services, be a kveller.