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Sep 6, 2026, 2:51 PM

The Angel from Worcester

Worcester Cemetery: The Gravesite of Rav Avraham Kaufman

How prayers at Ancestors’ Graves Opened the Way to an Astonishing Encounter “Do you mean you met Elijah the Prophet?” I was giving a sermon at a shtiebel by my brother Baruch’s home in Brooklyn near Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. ...

Sep 2, 2026, 10:25 PM

Converging Lives in Transit: Lisbon, June of 1941

Paperwork of survival, on to Lisbon (photo courtesy of Naomi Leiseroff).

I knew the facts about Jews desperate to leave Europe in 1941, but only recently did I pull together a powerful strand of stories about four people—a world-famous artist, a Chabad rabbi, a future journalist and a teen from...

Yoseph Janowski

Aug 27, 2026, 9:18 PM

These days when Jews say ‘never again,’ antisemites know that they mean it

Used to be that ‘never again’ meant educating, talking, explaining, and so on. But now ‘never again’ has taken on a whole new meaning. When Israel says ‘never again,’ Hamas and Hezbollah and Syria and the Iranian regime know that...

Aug 24, 2026, 12:25 AM

For the Patrilineal Jews: You Are Jewish

The Davidson Archaeological Park in Jerusalem, October 2021 - Courtesy of the Author

I am not a “patrilineal Jew.” My mom is Jewish, and so is my dad. I am simply Jewish. But I believe the same principle of belonging should extend to Jews whose Jewish identity comes through their fathers. The term...

Aug 22, 2026, 11:19 AM

The Wedding Hamas Could Not Stop

Yesterday, I watched videos of the wedding of two people I have never met, with tears in my eyes. I was not among the thousand guests celebrating under the chuppah of Eliya Cohen and Ziv Abud at Ronit Farm...

Binyamin Jayson

Aug 21, 2026, 9:53 PM

The paradox of self-care: The self beyond the self

Two weeks ago I was speaking with an atheist about religion. She said to me that faith exists because it provides people comfort. My instinctive reaction was to push back. I replied by stressing Judaism’s intellectual tradition, its thousands of years...

Aug 21, 2026, 6:49 PM

Long Sermons: Good for the Soul, Dangerous for the Kiddush!

The Long and Short of the Rabbi’s Sermon The Pros and Cons of a Rabbi Who Has a Lot to Say There is an old synagogue joke: A congregant approaches the rabbi after services and says, “Rabbi, that was a wonderful...

Aug 20, 2026, 9:18 AM

The Illusion of the Jungle: The Quantum Physics of Chassidic Oneness

We live in a culture profoundly addicted to conflict. Look at the headlines, algorithmically driven feeds, or daily social commentary, and a depressing pattern emerges: what commands our attention is discord, the clash of egos, power struggles, and the...

Aug 19, 2026, 9:23 PM

What Should the Rabbi Talk About This Rosh Hashanah

Politics or Purpose? The Great High Holiday Sermon Debate Every year as Rosh Hashanah approaches, rabbis face a challenge almost as difficult as preparing the sermon itself: What should we talk about? Should the High Holiday pulpit address the headlines of the day:...

Aug 17, 2026, 11:05 AM

Don’t Wait for Tragedy to Bring America Together!

America Needs a 9/12 Without a 9/11 September 11, 2001, was a day of unimaginable horror and loss. But those who lived through it also remember something remarkable about the next day. On September 12, America felt different. Flags appeared everywhere. Strangers...

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