Sukkot 2026: What the sukkah and Four Species teach us about Israeli unity
The sukkah is where we spend much of our time over the holiday, eating our meals, and many sleep in the sukkah when conditions and weather allow.
Jewish Holidays
Sukkot Guide 2026: Fun family activities in and around Jerusalem
Sukkot and Shabbat candle lighting times for Israel and US
Sukkot 2026: Bend-ability
Hanukkah 2025: From Hellenism to today’s culture wars
Still reeling from the horrors of violent fascism and extreme nationalism, humanity has grown enamored of a universal self-conception that denies meaningful differences of race, religion, or culture.
Hanukkah 2025: The power of the invisible
Ancient Greek culture, based on Aristotle’s philosophy, believed only in what is 'before the eyes' – what can be seen, touched, measured, and proven.
From golems to Horton to banana menorahs: This year’s Hanukkah kids’ books light up the imagination
Three titles garnered the recommendation of the Association of Jewish Libraries: “Construction Site, Hanukkah Lights,” “Banana Menorah,” and “Lost and Found Hanukkah.”
Eight nights, nine lives: How to celebrate Hanukkah with your cats
How does one celebrate the eight-day Festival of Lights and include cats? Here's what you need to know.
Of mourning and morning: Toward a new understanding of Simchat Torah
Simchat Torah was never a festival of polarity. Happiness was never its sole emotion. Between death and creation, there is commemoration.
Simchat Torah: Celebrating and honoring authentic Jewish values
Which messages of Torah are we meant to celebrate and honor as our legacy on Simchat Torah?
Light after October 7: A Simchat Torah reflection from an American Jew
This, I think, is the message of Simchat Torah: to hold firmly in one’s imagination the joyful possibility of a year made truly new.
Sukkot: Finding peace in a fragile sukkah
The structures may be temporary, but creating them with attention to these minute details allows God’s presence to dwell among us.
‘Yizkor’ - short story
The word yizkor means 'He shall remember.'
Simchat Torah: Divine fire and national legacy
Should Torah exist apart from society or be fully integrated within it?
