Jewish Thought

  Kevin and Amy Lefcoe with the Sefer Torah "Will you carry the Torah?"   ...our...

One should never confuse Jews with Judaism. No matter how disappointed you are in Jews, it should in no way...

The Haskalah or Jewish Enlightenment movement swept through Eastern European Jewry in the mid-1800s, but misjudged the racial anti-Semitism of...

Yiddish was more than a language to Jews. It presupposed the knowledge of Bible, Midrash and Talmud. It was the...

The disaster of 9/11 caused people to pray who previously were not counted among those that...

Common sense is really the basis of all human based justice and laws. Without such common...

In light of Sarah Palin’s recent characterization of herself as the victim of a “blood libel” and the subsequent uproar...

The 10 Plagues were unparalleled miracles. But what role do miracles play in the achievement of true faith?

Chanuka gelt -- the traditional giving of coins to children -- has morphed into eight days...

How does a person committed to truth deal with all the gray areas in life that necessarily arise?