Some Issues with Lumping In Other Tragedies onto Tisha b’Av
…ssuming that history is merely didactic and meant to teach lessons as opposed to...
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“This year, it’s easy to feel Tisha b’Av”
It’s painful to see images of death and devastation. There is torment in observing...
Seeing the Beauty in the Hebrew Word איכה…
What’s beautiful about the Hebrew word איכה is that it captures the very human...
“first and foremost, we are Jewish brothers and sisters. Disagreements and disputes are secondary to our primary state of unity”
We are a diverse people, and our heterogeneousness has never been more apparent than...
“One of the biggest challenges of Tisha b’Av is finding the strength to feel pain that has had thousands of years to heal”
One of the biggest challenges of Tisha b’Av is finding the strength to feel...
Teaching Hafrashat-Challah and Tzenius should not be so different…
When I poll Bais Yaakov graduates about their emotional associations with certain mitzvos, I...
“whereas Christianity acknowledges only the religious enemy, Judaism only recognizes the political enemy”
Both Judaism and Christianity teach charity and forgiveness to the personal enemy, as well...
“Not talking about sexuality” can give off the message that Judaism has nothing to offer
Not talking about sexuality, especially when it is so much talked about in movies...
Judaism is not about the Holocaust
So which statistic surprised me? A statistic that, while overlooked by many, says much...
“Our dilemma today is that at the very time that we desperately need an ideological linkage between powerful Israel experiences and the creation of robust Jewish communities for young Jews in America, Zionism is absent from the mix”
Our dilemma today is that at the very time that we desperately need an...