For the people of Israel, freedom is not the open skies—a world of unlimited and unguarded possibilities. It is the hot and dry slog through the desert, full of prickly rules and regulations.
While the Jewish people continue to face enemies seeking our destruction, we continue to survive.
Between memory and motion lies the work every tradition must perform.
In order to have a Jewish future, we need to have more Jewish babies.
May the story you share be a reminder that through our fears and uncertainty, alongside the bitterness we experience, redemption awaits.
I just returned from B’nei Mitzvah in Chicago … War broke out in the middle of the festivities
In 1973, he founded Synagogue for the Performing Arts, drawing the likes of Walter Matthau, Ed Asner and Joan Rivers.
No single philosophical system can contain God.
There is a second form of sacred survival: to survive as a nation. And that too takes precedence over everything.
