The Tony Award-nominated theater performer appeared in both plays and musicals and had roles in several Woody Allen movies — ...

The stories we tell ourselves define our reality – especially in turbulent times, when a clear narrative can be the ...

I have come to see that my 'wide tent' cannot include those fringe alienated Jews who go so far as to betray core Jewish ...

In some ways, Rabbi Yaakov Peer, the founder/director of the Chabad Persian Youth Center in the heart of Pico-Robertson has ...

I was overwhelmed with emotion when I received the verse Table of Five requested that I write about. This verse spoke ...

The Academy Awards honor the best in film. But sometimes they strike out. Here are 10 classics shut out at the Oscars, from ...

Sabbath Queen shown Sunday night at the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival documents the life of Amichai Lau-Lavie, the Rabbi and founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul in NYC.  The ...

No one can realistically be expected to know everything about the Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict, yet there are recurring canards that one should be prepared to address with some level of knowledge ...

Too often these days, we see a distorted narrative become the accepted truth. That is the situation in Gaza as Hamas continues to hold the entire strip and all its people in captivity with its ...

Strange that the last three of the ten plagues are in a separate Torah portion. Even more striking i ...

First, we should consider what churches mean when they say the phrase “Come as you are.” This phrase communicates that people ...