Fighting society’s disintegration is a group effort. Just ask Moses.

Michelle Gary z"l Memorial Program

A group of Jewish parents and schools are fighting California for equal access to government money

Religion has little to do with it.

Many “kosher-style” restaurants sell food that isn’t kosher. Why did this happen? And what does that say about our Jewish identity? 

The laws of kosher are part of Judaism’s code of ethics. But what happens when kosher food is made unethically?

Why do food companies put symbols on their products that are meant for only a tiny fraction of their consumers?

How can we instill and sustain deep Jewish identity and a sense of obligation to carry forward our Jewish tradition?

The beit midrash and the classroom will always be the principal sites of transformative Jewish study; it will just look a lot different tomorrow than before.

More than a century after my own great-grandfather left Odessa for America, a family from Kharkiv found refuge in our house in New York.