We think of Israel as the country that manages to survive despite existential threats from outside and within. What should we expect? An examination of Israel’s earlier crises may be instructive.

The Passover song ‘Dayenu’ is not just a tune about the Exodus. It’s a blueprint for the story of Israel

What should one do if a philanthropic gift is “tainted” by the personal or professional activities of the giver?

From the “Rediscovered Reading” series

Yiddish culture is not an “off-ramp” away from Jewishness but a source of oxygen much needed by a living religion if it is to remain alive

The decline and fall of everything, including the inner man, has been a Jewish study since there was an everything to decline and fall

Art does not stop after great artists are gone. It evolves