On any given day, my neighborhood almost feels like I’m in the holy land.

It is essential for any prospective Bar or Bat Mitzvah-goer to know what they’re getting themselves into.

Jewish federations can’t do it. Jewish organizations can’t do it. Jewish foundations can’t do it. But the synagogues can. 

Our community has been dealing with familiar problems for decades, until the COVID pandemic accelerated a lethal problem: Millions of Jews are now happy just staying home, living the online life.

Overachievers might get the job done, but in my experience, they don’t share others’ perceptions of themselves.

Chukat Akum insists a Jew must make a point of being different than others.

As an executive coach who focuses on women’s empowerment, one of the things I hear constantly from women is that they want to be more “productive.”

Being a white woman of a certain age means that people make assumptions.

According to the great blue-check-marked accounts of Twitter, Terry McAuliffe sunk his chances against rival Glenn Youngkin for Governor of Virginia when he said in a September debate, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

The NGO industry has a great deal to lose if the Israeli government convinces officials and the wider public in these countries to take the links to terror seriously.

Last week’s cover story in the Jewish Journal asking how synagogues will reinvent themselves hit home for me personally and professionally.

Dallas is the fastest-growing Jewish community in North America.

We often take for granted that everyone understands the meaning of the word “liberal” and the values that it represents. However, we use a confusing lexicon that misleads people regarding the meaning of the word “liberal.”

As we all lament the state of our synagogues, battered by COVID and vying to recapture our communal mojo, shul boards and their clergy are desperately trying to figure out how to win back IN PERSON the congregants that have left or stationed themselves on the Zoom sidelines.

It is clear that Esav was fated to be a failure.

These are the ten most important things that I’ve gleaned as I cross into the middle of my fifth decade.

Over the course of several days, tens of thousands of people around the world learned Rabbi Sacks-inspired Torah together in what must surely have been one of the most unique events in Torah-study history.

Sarah’s lifetime — the years of Sarah’s life — came to 100 years and twenty years and seven years. 

I met David Eichel in fifth grade. He was one of my oldest and dearest friends. David died this year.

Harlem is a place known for its rich history—from Black music, literature, and culture, to Jewish artistry and community.

The modern age is a secular one and organized religion may be facing its greatest crisis in history.

Last week the Israeli Ministry of Defense designated six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organizations.

For the first time in history, the state is set to lose a congressional seat. California will go from 53 seats in the U.S. House to 52 this year. The question is: which one?

The method by which one chooses a spouse is less significant than we might imagine; there are models of both romantic and arranged marriages in the Torah.

Facing 500 community members who had come to honor him as he ends his 12-year tenure as head of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, Jay Sanderson found himself in an unusual position: speechless.

Just as Anti-Vaxxers are not “Refuseniks,” Palestinians are not experiencing either “apartheid” or “genocide.”

Mort was a father of American comedy, and one of my favorite artists.

Isn’t Halloween as quintessentially American as a Thanksgiving dinner or New Year’s Eve in Times Square? It depends whom you ask.

Apparently, DEIJ initiatives in Jewish schools are not open for discussion.

As much as fighting Jew-hatred is a deadly serious matter, maintaining our sense of humor as we engage in that fight is an equally serious matter.