
Just Put One Foot in Front of the Other
On the slow road to redemption, the first rule is to just keep going.
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York.

On the slow road to redemption, the first rule is to just keep going.

The lesson of Sodom is that one cannot live by law alone.

In an open society, all religions are in conversation with each other, whether or not we like it.


Jews have always celebrated the Torah, even in the worst of times.

Our devotion to the hostages speaks volumes about our communal identity; and having a strong communal identity also has strategic value.

How does one celebrate their own good fortune at returning from exile, knowing that so many generations of our ancestors lived lives of misery?



As the Jews and Israel have been the subject of hatred and vitriol, many Jews have leaned into their Jewish identity.