“You Are a Demented Ostrich!”

December 8, 2025

I love studying Talmud. As long as it’s in English, that is, because I came to the rabbinate in my …

Names

October 27, 2023

Our names matter. It’s a funny thing, because as far as you and I are concerned, our parents made an …

February 4, 2021

The Jewish tradition has a sweet story about the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It relates that the …

July 17, 2011

Incongruous – out of place; absurd; odd. Not in accord or consistent. In other words, my life over the past …

July 20, 2010

For the record, I am not and have never been good with languages. Why can some people pick up languages as …

July 9, 2010

Friday, July 2, 2010 What’s the answer to THE question about life, the universe and everything? 42, of course. What’s …