The Gun Gag Order: Banning Life Saving Advice
Florida Governor Rick Scott
Galilee Diary: The Neighbors
Whoever saves one life in Israel [i.e., of a Jew] is as if he had saved an entire world.
– Mishnah, Sanhedrin 4:5
Whoever saves one life is as if he had saved an entire world.
Sudan On The Verge Of War?
Ki Teitzei: When You Go Out as a Warrior
Parashat Ki Teitzei includes a rich and varied collection of directives that serve as a partial blueprint for behaviors and norms to create the emerging covenantal culture. As Professor Adele Berlin notes, “Issues pertaining to women are prominent in this parashah. . . .
How Tikkun Olam and Pikuah Nefesh Will Help Me Prepare: A #BlogElul Post
Last week I had lunch with a rabbi friend who told me he’s in the midst of preparing four different sermons for the upcoming High Holidays.
Tension on the Israeli-Syrian Border
Monday marked 44 years since the start of the Six-Day-War in West Bank Mosque Vandalized
Tuesday this week saw an outrageous arson attack on a West Bank mosque.MARCH for Military Women Act
Thinking of a blog title has never been so easy--all I had to do was type the name of the bil
Syrian Refugees
With more than 500,000 people displaced to neighboring countries by the violent civil war in Syria, the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief (JCDR) has opened a fund to provide humanitarian aid to the refugees.
Galilee Diary: Truth in labeling
Who is the mightiest of the mighty? ...He who turns his enemy into a friend.
-Avot D'Rabbi Natan, version A, chap. 23
Death to the extremists!
-popular Israeli bumper sticker