Writings & Recordings

cross posted to Beacon Hebrew Alliance My wife should have been born on a small street in Rexingen, a small town in Germany’s Black...

cross posted from the Times of Israel When the Spanish fleet conquered Mexico in the 16th century, Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva was...

crossposted with JTS Torah Online; podcast audio here Moses had no idea what he was getting into. It wasn’t just when he was talking to...

My grandma used to tell me that it didn't matter what you knew as much as it mattered who you knew. Oh, but grandma, there are a lot of...

cross posted from the Times of Israel The first and only time I tried to impress a girl by singing was when I was 15 years old. I had...

It's tempting to think of prayer as an eloquent form of begging. Please let me live. Please let me get this job. Please let my team win...

Oy vey, what pain I caused myself today! Last night, I got some stressful news, so I stayed up late trying to rectify it. Of course, I...

Many people who live a religious life, or aspire to one, pray that God will appear to them in a cacophonous moment of revelation. We...

cross-posted from the Times of Israel I’m a rabbi, but I tend to get a little itchy when the question of belief comes up. Believers and...