Dear Friends: A few quick notes: This coming Thursday night our “Contemporary Jewish Controversies” class will feature a guest speaker,...

Dear Friends: While I normally send you these email updates on Wednesdays and Fridays, on Wednesday morning I am participating in a...

Dear Friends: In honor of the Oscars ceremony coming up this Sunday evening, I want to share with you a television commercial for the...

Dear Friends: Tomorrow night in my “Contemporary Jewish Controversies” class I want to look at a recent article by Rabbi Arthur Green and...

Dear Friends: The Shabbat before Purim is known as Shabbat Zachor because, in addition to the regular Torah reading we have a special...

Dear Friends: On Thursday night in my “Contemporary Jewish Controversies” class I discussed the question of, as I framed it. “Should...

Dear Friends: As part of our cautious attempt to rebuild our in-person activities we have had a Kiddush every Shabbat this calendar year...

Dear Friends: At the beginning of this month I read an Op-Ed in The Times of Israel that I never thought I would see. Matti Friedman,...

Dear Friends: Yesterday Senator John Fetterman’s office announced that he had checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical...

Dear Friends: I will not be having my drop-in hours tomorrow afternoon. Yesterday it was discovered that my wife Keleigh has a fracture...

Dear Friends: I wanted to call your attention to the fact that evening minyan on Sunday will be at 6:30 rather than 7:45 in anticipation...

Dear Friends: On Monday morning a series of powerful earthquakes hit Turkey and northern Syria which were felt as far as Lebanon, Cyprus,...

Dear Friends: I often wonder how many people actually read my morning musings beyond the schedule, but I was pleased to note that a...

Dear Friends: Over the weekend Keleigh and I watched the new movie You People on Netflix. It’s more or less an updated version of Guess...

Dear Friends: This morning I want to look back at some things I have discussed recently. A couple of weeks ago I discussed the...

Dear Friends: This past weekend things did not go exactly as planned. On Monday you probably received my Friday morning update. On Friday...

Dear Friends: David Crosby died yesterday at age 81. I just heard Mika Brzezinski describe the music he made as “the soundtrack of our...

Dear Friends: News came yesterday that after being sued for defamation and religious discrimination, Hamline University in Minnesota...

Dear Friends: We have had kiddush after Shabbat services for the past couple of weeks and will continue to do so this Shabbat and for the...

Dear Friends: “Historiography” is the study of how history is researched, written, and told, or in other words, the history of history....