Editorial & Commentary

You can't build a lasting building out of half-baked bricks. You can't assemble an accurate timepiece unless each of its gears, springs and balance wheels has first been honed to precision. But people, says the Lubavitcher Rebbe, are not bricks

Without pause, Madiba replied that he felt a strong affinity with Joseph.

They call it just revenge. What a shame that they never paid attention to the daily prayers.

What value is gained by dumping a bucket of ice water on one’s head for a cause? Wouldn’t it make more sense to simply write a check in the first place?

Our synagogue was recently ransacked. It got me thinking . . .

Human civilization—the sum total of civilized human behavior—is not keeping pace, and in some very important ways, even regressing.

My mind wanders back to recent events in Paris. Forces of darkness under a blackened banner extinguished manifold lives.

Before I managed to take the next confident step, I slipped down the snowy hill.

It’s a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago, but never directly observed until now . . .

How did I get to this point? Of not only wanting to have a kosher kitchen, but actually having it koshered?

A reflection on the general verbal ugliness of the last decade

I always suspected that he never really got that inheritance.

With millions of people voting (and millions more having already voted), the question looms large: Why vote?

There are those who say that the problem with our murderous world today is that there's not enough religion. Others posit that the problem is that there's too much religion. But this is not about religion--it's about G-d