Just as we are told to take a leap of faith about the commandments, so are we asked to take a leap of trust about life's ...

The national flower of Israel, a glowing red bloom with delicate, eye-like petals and a bold black center, blossoms all ...

Perhaps, like Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Rubashkin needed to pass this final test and take the highest leap of trust for salvation to arrive. May we never be tested this way, but we may we always stand ...

Parshat Chukat begins with the poignant words “Zot Chukat HaTorah”-- “This is the decree of the Torah”, and then proceeds to ...

Because if it is corruption we are worried about, there is no greater corruption and source of impurity than the presence of death itself.

A teen’s journey from LA to Nir Oz – loss, hope, and Jewish roots ...

Rabbi Akiva Males began serving as rabbi of the Young Israel of Memphis in the summer of 2016. Prior to that, he served as a congregational rabbi in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He can be reached at ...

There’s an idea in Judaism, specifically in the Hasidic world, of attaching one’s prayers spiritually, through thought and ...

With the sights and sounds of last week’s Fourth of July celebrations still vivid in my heart, I have been thinking a great ...

The Rev. Greg Foraker, left, former assistant to the rector at St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, Rabbi Samuel Cohon, then senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El, and Edip Yuksel, a leader of ...