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.

As a long-time college faculty member and administrator, I have heard, and given, quite a few commencement addresses.  

If I asked you to describe your idea of a typical college president, I doubt that the word “humility” would be among the first adjectives that come to mind.

I love the Yiddish expression “Be a Nachshon.”  In our fractured world, we need his kind of moral courage now more than ever.

Be sure to take the time to acknowledge those who helped get you to this point.

The discipline of building my schedule around Shabbat continues to keep me going.

Jews should never be silent in the face of hatred, whether it is directed to us or to any vulnerable group