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Will G-d Strike Me With Lightning?

Seven myths and facts about the ancient mystical Jewish view on the relationship between our choices and their outcomes…

What is a True Leader?

Shorts • 12 Comments

What is a true leader? Rabbi Simon Jacobson explains in this excerpt from his best-selling book, “Toward a Meaningful Life”.

In The Beginning

Weekly Op-Ed • 4 Comments

While many people focus on the debate between evolution and creation, they often overlook a more important question about responsibility to a Creator.

Environmental New Year

Weekly Op-Ed • 4 Comments

Everything was created for a purpose and we are responsible to care for and protect every part of existence, whether it is human, animal, vegetable or mineral.

Taking Responsibility as a Form of Self-Care

Shorts • 2 Comments

Responsibility is a basic human need, just like food or oxygen; we cannot fulfill or justify our existence without it. It is one of the greatest gifts we’ve been endowed with — the gift of being active participants in the unfolding of our destinies.

Purim: Middle East Revisited

Essays • 1 Comment

Perhaps the most intriguing, and definitely the most mysterious, character in the Purim Megilah is King Achashverosh, the Persian leader who ruled the world

Bereishit: War In Israel: What We Must Do

Weekly Op-Ed •October 8th, 2015• 8 Comments

Let us create a true revolution. Let us reconnect to our Divine mission. Let us move heaven and earth with our actions. We have been promised that when we do, we will save the universe – literally.