
Everyone Kvetches: A Guide to Dealing with First World Problems
Kvetching will never cease; as long as desire exists, so will disappointment.
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York.

Kvetching will never cease; as long as desire exists, so will disappointment.

A toxic mix of technology, materialism and polarization has left people feeling more disconnected than ever.

The very foundation of Jewish history is redemption; it is the story of a people who, despite having every reason to be bitter and cynical, continued to rebuild and repair.

How to read the Torah section of the tochacha, the curses, in the synagogue, has always been a delicate matter.

The rules of the sabbatical year, shmita, require farmers to desist from working their fields and to open up their fields, and all the produce within them, to anyone.

After the Holocaust, everything changed; death was an unambiguous instrument of evil. It was now time to cherish life and sanctify it.

Our potential for holiness is enthralling, but what exactly is holiness?

Many choices are made for us, but plenty of choices are made by us.

When we read about the sacrifices brought by the new mother, we should think about the sacrifices made by countless Jewish mothers, and by the Jewish people as a whole.

Jews have had negative feelings about pigs for over 2,000 years, and in many ways, the antagonism was created by anti-Jewish polemics.