May each new cycle bring us greater happiness, deeper understanding, and more enduring peace.

It seems that the one thing that all generations share is the conviction that they live at the most critical and, often, most perilous, period in human history. 

May the great “sportsman” Sandy Koufax continue to inspire us with unending Jewish pride during these days of awe and always.

Sir Isaac Newton once wrote that “If I have seen further (than others), it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”  

Up to 82% of people face feelings of imposter phenomenon, struggling with the sense they haven’t earned what they’ve achieved and are a fraud.

While I regularly feel a special connection with observers of any faith, I have on occasion found it is easier to engage with someone who has no faith than with someone who has a strong one.  

Now ask yourself, family members and friends a simple question:  What takes your breath away?  

Judaism provides a sense of right and wrong at its very core. When we live in a time and place when the secular powers violate that morality, we know what we must do.

While it is important that changes in liturgy and ethical tenets be rare enough so that they don’t become mere echoes of our own shifting beliefs, if religion is to remain an integral part of our lives, we must enter into dialogue with it.