Early morning on the eve of Rosh Hashanah I was online with an alum serving abroad in Iraq discussing how he could best keep Rosh Hashanah under the circumstances out there, being the only Jew on base, far a...
On Erev Rosh Hashanah 2022 I was driving around doing last-minute errands and while driving in the car heard a segment of a story told over WAMC radio as part of their Sunday ‘Selected Shorts” a ...
In the Torah reading of Netzavim, read every year on the Shabbos before Rosh Hashanah, there’s a line about “circumcising our hearts.” This isn’t a physical procedure like the better ...
Just before the last Shabbat of the Jewish year 5782 Raizy and I (separately, in separate cars) listened to the car-radio, not only that, but we happened to listen to the same radio station and hear the same...
As an American observing the deep veneration of royalty across the pond in the 21st Century in connection with the passing of Queen Elizabeth, I struggled quite a bit with it & came to an understanding t...
