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Overthinking: The Silent Thief of Peace A few days ago, I received an email informing me that my article had been selected for publication. Naturally, I was happy. It was a moment worth celebrating. But then, the last two brain…
Michael A. Helfand is the Brenden Mann Foundation Chair in Law & Religion at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law; Visiting Professor at Yale Law School; Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute; and Senior Legal Advisor to the Teach Coalition. Someday, I…
You probably think you’re a decent person. You have your reasons. You try to be honest. You care about people close to you. You know the difference between treating someone well and treating them badly. And when you see someone…
In 1838, missionaries were active and Jewish schooling was scarce. A Philadelphia woman with little Hebrew built a school that soon reached nearly 90 percent of the city's Jewish children. In the early 1800s, America offered Jews something they had rarely known anywhere:…
“Question: Many tens, especially new groups, are trying to understand what the right prayer should be. What would you advise them? Answer: We need to open our hearts to one another, fill the hearts of others through us, and unite…
We find in Matthew 22: 37–38: “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment.” What comes to mind today as you read…
Deacon Matthew Halbach, vice president for mission and campus culture of Mercy Health Sciences University, was our keynote speaker. His presentation invited DREs and youth ministers to recognize their shared mission and offered practical planning steps for greater collaboration. One…
Wayne Pines and Marc Scheineson The new year is a time for reflection and planning — both personally and as a Jewish community. That is especially urgent now, amid surging antisemitism worldwide, a disturbing trend that should concern every Jew. Critics…
Oct. 7 was a day when the world witnessed a level of cruelty that defied every boundary of human conscience, a moment when the moral anchors of humanity seemed to break loose. The atrocities committed against Israel were not only an…
The Brooklyn native was a founder of Boston’s Havurat Shalom and a pioneer of adult b’nai mitzvah. Rabbi Albert S. Axelrad, a Reform rabbi, community leader and political activist who headed Brandeis University’s Hillel Foundation for 34 years, died on Sept.