Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

It takes creativity to embrace an invisible God. It takes strength to worship a God who exists, who lives, but who does not “do.” ...

Yet a curious detail of the law requires that the search be conducted specifically at night and just a candle (today, many ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrated March 13-14, is considered holier than Yom Kippur, yet it’s a story of survival where ...

There are two things we must always remember about the Jewish people. First, they exist because God willed them to be. Their ...

When He had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written ...

Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of the Vessels,” weighing more than seven tons, is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of ...

When Moses comes down from Mount Sinai, he’s holding the rules by which they were to live and sees this golden calf party.

People have always worried about destiny — what could be more human! That’s what God is for: to reassure us that there’s a ...

It seems like no coincidence, then, that we read Esther and Ruth at the beginning and end of this period in the year.