About 700 years ago, the Kabbalists (Jewish mystics) instituted a practice of inviting ushpizin  (celestial guests) to join us in the...

We shouldn’t be here. We should have disappeared long ago like the Hittites and the Babylonians and the Assyrians and all the other...

In Smashing Pumpkins’ iconic song Zero, Billy Corgan sings, “I’m in love with my sadness.” When I first heard that lyric, all I could...

I was 7 years old when I decided I wanted to be Jewish. That’s right. This rabbi began her life as a Catholic. The epiphany happened...