I’ll be giving an interactive online talk–complete with video and art!–through the distinguished series organized by Valley Beit Midrash in Phoenix. If you’re interested and available, you can learn more and sign up to attend here.
Rabin offers us the Biblical heroes as spiritual models for ourselves today and this makes his book wonderful to read and ponder. Read the full review of my book The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility on p. 18 in the Jewish Observer here.
As we enter the holiday of Chanukkah during this dark Covid year when the pandemic is raging, here’s my twist on the meaning of the holiday lights. Chag urim sameach–Happy Holiday of Lights!
On today’s 929.org.il, the website that goes through a chapter of the Bible each day and introduces various new interpretations, take a look at my reading of Psalm 51, “a psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had come to Bathsheba,” in an excerpt from my new book on the …
Check out the latest review of The Biblical Hero on the Jewish Book Council’s website. As Rabin’s excellent volume so expertly teaches us, the Bible’s portrayal of its heroes inspires us today “To have high expectations of our leaders and to tolerate their imperfections… Biblical heroes are role models precisely because of the difficulties they encounter, both out …
I’m truly honored to share my thoughts about the new school year for Jewish day schools on the blog of the Mayberg Center / JEIC. https://www.jewishchallenge.org/insights/2020/8/12/the-same-and-entirely-different
I had the pleasure of speaking to Dustin Hausner, the Jewish Outreach and Program Director at the Wayne YMCA, about my book on biblical heroes. Have a listen.
I recently had the pleasure of rereading W. E. B. Du Bois’s seminal book The Souls of Black Folk, a collection of essays that wonder between sociology and memoir, biography and fiction, objective reporting to personal lament, sewn together by a powerful literary voice. What particularly struck me this time was the effortless way that …
Every night at 7 pm, I stand on our balcony and join my fellow New Yorkers in cheering on the health workers who are striving to save the lives of COVID19 patients. I imagine that few doctors and nurses expected to be on the front lines of a pandemic when they signed up for school; …
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I’m honored to be part of the 929.org.il faculty that is producing a series of videos called “24 x 24,” lessons on the 24 books of Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) during the 24 days leading up to Passover. My video about the book of Joshua can be found here. I’m eager to hear your thoughts.