September 11

The question is without a doubt the most burning one of our era: If we cannot be heroes, if we have nothing for which to stand, nothing in which to believe, then the barbarian hordes are at the gates of Rome and its only a matter of time...

Years later, we look back at the 9/11 terror attacks and ask what we have learned as Jews, as Americans and as people.

The American homeland suffered its greatest human-inflicted loss of life in one day on 9/11/2001. How are we to react to this mind-numbing heinous tragedy? A selection of insights and articles...

G-d wants you to be good, but he also wants you to shine.

The sages teach that the enlarged letter Lamed in Deut 29:27 "and He cast them into another land" hints to the purpose of exile. How is this connected to the fact that in the following verse, there are precisely 11 dots placed above 11 consecutive letters...

I know that Jewish law requires one to obtain either confirmation of death or a Jewish certificate of divorce before remarrying. What happened to the women and men who, in many cases, did not know whether or not their husband or wife was in the building a...

When we ask or answer, “Where were you on September 11,” we shouldn’t limit the question to our geographical location. Because for all of us, it was so much more than that. Where were you? Where was I? Where were we? And more importantly, where are we?

We look back at the 9/11 terror attacks and ask what we have learned as Jews, as Americans and as people.

Like many great feats, the towers didn’t go up easily. It was the culmination of decades of political wrangling and years of laborious construction.

Colonel Jacob Z. Goldstein of the New York Army National Guard recalls the fateful events of September 11th as he tended to the spiritual needs at the site of the fallen towers and his experiences during the four and a half months he spent at Ground Zero....