Articles & Essays about Miscellaneous

Saluate to Israel Day Parade Photo Essay

By Judah S. Harris
Photo Essay on this year's Salute to Israel Parade (link) See nearly 40 exciting color photographs taken by photographer and filmmaker Judah S. Harris at this year's Salute to Israel Parade. Put on some music and relive the march up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue through the eyes of a noted visual artist.

Connecting To Birth

By Judy Slome Cohain
If you can learn to connect to death, it is only fair that you learn to connect to birth.

Embracing and Rejecting Christian Evangelicals

By Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg
Christian Evangelicals – Friends or Foe?

The Tyranny of Time

By Rabbi Francis Nataf
As we have gotten more adept and more exact at keeping track of time, have we gained mastery over it, or has it gained mastery over us?

Forgiving Our Fathers: The Key To A Better World

By Rabbi Gidon Rothstein
Maybe the key to admitting our mistakes is knowing that others will accept us in spite or because of our flaws. What's been known to be true of sin is true in the broader world as well, and we'd all be better off if we started realizing it.

Anything Important Can Be Said in Ten Minutes

By Rabbi Gidon Rothstein
Who, really, is entitled to an opinion about Jewish topics?

Turning Japanese: What Jews Could Learn From Kurosawa

By Eli Kavon
Jews on Flim?: Why you won't see "Maimonides: The Motion Picture" at a theater near you.

From Holy War to Holy Peace

By Rabbi Howard Joseph
I was one of the religious leaders at a conference of Imams and Rabbis for Peace.

Pastoral Counseling for Rabbis: The Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT) Rabbinical School Model

By Michelle E. Friedman, M.D.
When young men begin to study for the rabbinate, they are bombarded with questions regarding the most intimate aspects of life.