Language is a perilous thing. It can unite us, but quite often it does the opposite. That, by the way, was God’s intent. We know
עֵקֶב What is this tendency of human minds to discard unpleasant things and cling to what is pleasant, nice, and amusing? This can be useful
וָאֶתְחַנַּן Left to right: Vittorio Orlando (Italy), David Lloyd George (Great Britain), Georges Clemenceau (France), Woodrow Wilson (United States).In a sense one might say that
Once again Peter Vest of Orthodox Messianic Judaism has provided thoughtful material worthy of consideration. In a blog post published earlier this week he invited
אַחֲרֵי מוֹת / קְדֹשִׁים How do we love the unlovely? That is one of the questions Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise explore in Rain Man.
מַצּוֹת It was in May of 1986 that I first visited the great World War I battlefield at Verdun. Along with Auschwitz, Verdun is on
Last week a reader asked a very important question. It is so important that I want to share it: A friend introduced me to your
וַיְחִי The timeless appeal of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac is in its depiction of selfless love. Cyrano’s bigger-than-life character captures our attention instantly. How
וַיִּגַּשׁ It has been more than 500 years since Christopher Columbus mistakenly identified the indigenous peoples of the Americas as “Indians”, and yet that name
לֶךְ־לְךָ It is quite possible that the greatest literary accomplishment of the year 1844 was the publication of The Three Musketeers. The swashbuckling adventures of
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