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Jun 23, 2026, 7:07 PM

Drifting Prayers: Rosh Hashanah with the Rebbes

Grave of Rabbi Chayyim Schwarz and his wife Julia in Hempstead, Texas (photo courtesy of the author).

I wrote this for Rosh Hashanah in 2008 and never published it until now. With the yahrzeit of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson just passed, this is a good time to post it. I had a challenging spiritual path while...

Michael Feldstein

Jun 21, 2026, 6:21 PM

What’s in a Name?

Credit: Gemini

Have you ever wondered how we decided on our deeply ingrained customs for naming children? If you grew up in an Ashkenazi household, you probably take it for granted that you name a baby after a beloved relative who has...

Jun 21, 2026, 3:01 PM

One World, Many Realities: How Perspective and Bitachon/Trust Redefine Limits

How two people never see the same rainbow. The idea that a person can shape their own destiny despite external limitations is often dismissed as motivational rhetoric, yet both modern science and classical Jewish thought offer a far deeper and...

Jun 19, 2026, 6:30 PM

The H3+ Problem: How the New US-Iran Deal Redraws the Map for South Asian Security

The ink on the new memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran is barely dry, and already a profound cognitive dissonance is taking hold across the globe. In Western capitals, the sudden sanctions relief and unfreezing of Iranian assets...

Peter Himmelman

Jun 17, 2026, 11:31 PM

Retying The Knot: On Prophets, Pogroms and McDonald’s

Illustration by the author (Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 inches)

Retying The Knot: On Prophets, Pogroms and McDonald's My wife and I fly regularly to visit our grandchildren. I use a computer. I have just successfully used modern medicine to address a hearing issue. I mention these things not to...

Jun 17, 2026, 10:43 PM

The View From The Promised Land

Please read the following quotes: “With regard to your inclination toward a feeling of sadness, a good remedy for it is to have it firmly engraved on your mind that G‑d, the Creator of the world, watches over everyone individually...

Daphne Lazar Price

Jun 14, 2026, 6:28 PM

Chabad’s Lesson for the AI Age

As the 3rd of Tammuz approaches, marking the yahrzeit of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson z”l, I have been thinking not only about the Rebbe’s teachings, but about one of the defining features of the movement he built: Chabad-Lubavitch understood...

Jun 13, 2026, 12:51 AM

The Why of the Journey

This week, I walked into a hospital room that did not feel anything like the hospital room I had spent several days in last week. Last week, I spent several days in the maternity ward. It was a room full...

Jun 9, 2026, 4:11 AM

Physics of the Mystics: Lowering Your “Spiritual Gravity” to Touch the Infinite

How the Baal Shem Tov Saw 15 Years into the Future There is a beautiful and mind-blowing story from the history of Chassidut that seems almost impossible to believe at first. It sounds like a miracle that defies the rules...

Jun 6, 2026, 12:11 AM

From the Cemetery to the Maternity Ward

This Monday, I drove from one end of the universe to the other. Not literally, of course. I was only driving a few short miles from the cemetery, where I had just completed a funeral, and heading straight back to...

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