In many ways the first commandment is not a command at all. Rather it is a proclamation of who God is and the kind of relationship we have with the divine. God is Adonai, a personal god, in special connection with us as a people. Moreover...
If you were able to transport yourself back to an average Jewish home in interwar Germany, and if you were to look at the bookshelves of this Jewish home, the chances are that you’d find, next to the chumash, siddur, and machzor, a copy...
As a rabbinical student living in New York City, I was often struck by the fact that non-Jewish politicians understood that the principle of kashrut applied both to the fitness of food and to the fitness of legislation. Listening to the n...
