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Five years ago, I was in a store when an eight-year-old boy from our community saw me, came over, and said one word: “Rabbi.” I didn’t think anything of it until...

Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the “British Schindler,” died today at 106. Winton, a stockbroker, ferried 669 Jewish children out of occupied Prague as “the one-man children’s section of the British Committee...

Two years ago, The New York Times featured an article written by Bruce Feiler that discussed the work of Marshall Duke, a psychologist at Emory University. Duke explored ritual and myth...

“It’s over,” the doctor said. “We did all we could.” He didn’t even need to tell me – I felt my water break. I was totally helpless and devastated. This wasn’t...

This post originally appeared on Life in the Married Lane. Last week I saw a Facebook post which got me all emotional in a defensive way, and, after some (not enough)...

(This is the final part of a three-part series. To read the second part of Rabbi Student’s discussion of the halachas of superpowers, click here.) V. Shape Changing Some superheroes have...

If only yeshiva and day school students were as enthusiastic about the Talmud as South Koreans. The New Yorker’s PageTurner blog has a fascinating article about the popularity of the Talmud in South...

The night of Wednesday, June 17, was a scary one in Charleston, South Carolina, where I live. Helicopters flew overhead all night and police cars patrolled the streets, as a murderer...

We are all familiar with the tragic details of the mass murder at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church last week in Charleston, South Carolina. Dylann Roof murdered nine people at...

News of last week’s terror attack — and that’s what it was — at the Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine dead during a Bible study session has rightfully yielded both our...