Jewish Thought

Growing up, challah was a staple in my household, as it is in many Jewish homes. As a child, I would braid challah at school on Friday mornings, bake it, and enjoy it on my way home. It also graces…

In an interview hosted by Yeshiva University with the honorable Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, when asked about his opinion on the concept of “Modern Orthodox Judaism,” he urged the institution to drop that phrase, and instead elect an identity that…

Imagine you are searching for a new doctor—perhaps due to persistent neck pain, because your relatives haven’t had a physical in years, or because your previous doctor has retired. You find yourself scrolling through a list of physicians at a…

This past weekend, I completed my third fully shomer Shabbat: no technology, no driving – the whole deal. Keeping Shabbos is an ideal that I’ve been working towards for the past few months. Now that I’ve observed a few “full”…

If a tree falls in the forest with no one to hear it, how can we prove it made a sound—and, years later, that it even fell at all? If six million people are murdered, with few images to bear…

As the followers of the world’s first monotheistic religion, the Israelites placed resolute emphasis on God’s omnipotence, especially within the domain of healing. The descendants of ancient Israel continued to observe Hebrew law and tradition, but refined their interpretations of…

Upon a surface-level study of Megillat Esther, one quickly realizes that the Scroll of Esther — read twice a year on the evening and morning of the Purim holiday — is a book unlike any other in our literary canon.…

There is a classic Jewish teaching that has become mainstream to such an extent that, I believe, it rarely gets the full contemplation it deserves. Yet, in our current day and age, when many of society’s building blocks are being…