On New Army Officers, Holocaust Remembrance and Pharoah's Amnesia This week, my eldest daughter graduated from officer training school...

Listen to the first words voiced by the three heroines who returned this week from their captivity in Gaza, and you’ll understand how the...

Envisioning a Different Reality This week, I listened to the father of 19-year-old Liri Albag, who was taken hostage by Hamas and has...

For the soon-to-be-released Rabbi Sacks podcast, which I’ve been working on over the past year, I had the privilege of interviewing...

I said to a friend the other day that if I stop and ruminate about what the hostages are enduring or the unimaginable barbarity...

We all dream of ladders to heaven. Whether it’s Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven  or Yaakov’s dream in this week’s parsha, there’s...

We are a nation existing in the shadow of trauma. The events of this past year have shaken us to the core, leaving scars and wounds that...

Rather than demanding promises from humankind, God unilaterally commits to a promise never to destroy the world again. This is a radical...

By all accounts, Rav Avi Goldberg, the 47-year-old father of eight who was tragically killed this week, was an extraordinary person. His...

The past year has been a lesson in surrendering our human need for control.  As human beings, we crave certainty. We build our lives...

I don’t think I thought about God Or self transformation Or return Or love Instead there was guilt and shame Appraisals Scales and...

This week, my brother married his childhood friend of many decades. Despite, and perhaps even because of, their long journey and the...

One of the earliest post-Holocaust stories, “ Yossl Rakover Speaks to God ” by Zvi Kolitz, is a visceral and raw account of the ramblings...

וְהָיָה, כִּי יְבִיאֲךָ ה אֱלֹקיךָ, אֶל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר-אַתָּה בָא-שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ--וְנָתַתָּה אֶת-הַבְּרָכָה עַל-הַר גְּרִזִים,...

It seems an odd way to conclude the book of Bamidbar. The Parsha covers laws about oaths and vows, the request of the tribes of Reuven,...

Today we live in a world riddled by conflict on the global, national and communal level. The most pressing question for contemporary...

The philosopher Theodor Adorno speaks about the notion of silence as an absolute expression of permanence. The silence that followed the...

Everywhere you go in Israel, you will see the sign "יחד ננצח" - together we will win. Many speak about the imperative to unite and speak...

For several years before October 7th, we had fallen out of love with our people and our land. As the Israeli singer Hanan Ben Ari implied...

Bnei Yisrael are ready to enter the land. The men have been counted for battle. The tribes are encamped around the Tabernacle. The...