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Mark WildesThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
As someone who suffers from a healthy dose of indecisiveness, I’m always interested in wisdom on making better decisions. One of my favorite books...
There are moments when events thousands of miles apart speak to each other with uncomfortable clarity. Today, an elderly Jew in London was stabbed in...
This past weekend, right outside the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a young man tried to kill the president of the United...
Yesterday (March 29th, 2026), in the middle of a war, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa was briefly stopped by an Israeli police officer from entering...
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik told the story of a Seder he remembered from his early childhood. Yosef Dov, who would later become the great Rav...
Sefer Vayikra begins with a famous textual detail: the word Vayikra — “And He called” — appears in the Torah with a small aleph. The...
As the blizzard blankets New York, I can’t help but think about Purim. In Torah, water represents chesed — Divine kindness. It flows and...