This piece was originally delivered as a sermon titled “The Cries of Isaac and Ishmael” at Central Synagogue on the first day of Rosh Hashanah in 2025. I have been a rabbi for 25 years, 20 of them at ...

ISAAC AND ISHMAEL Episode Six of In The Beginning Bible Series features the dramatic struggle between Abrahams two sons and their quest for their fathers legacy ...

For more than seven decades political nationalist leaders in Israel and Palestine have failed to find a way to end the conflict between their two peoples. Perhaps it is time for religious leaders who ...

With Rosh Hashanah upon us, inaugurating 10 days of repentance dedicated to freeing ourselves of negative personal habits, it seems an appropriate time to ask if fundamentalist Islam can be freed from ...

Chapter 25 and Chapter 26 The middle of Chapter 25 announces: “This is the story of Isaac.” Except it’s not; the “story of Isaac” is actually the stories of Rebekah, Esau, and Jacob—of everyone but ...

The war between the two sides in Sudan is a civil war that has killed at least 40,000 people, according to the World Health Organization, displaced 10-12 million people, and pushed many to the brink ...