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  Thomas Wolfe famously titled his posthumously published 1940 novel, “You Can’t Go Home Again.” The protagonist in the book

  Sibling rivalry is as old as time.  Or at least as old as Torah.  From Cain and Abel, Isaac

  At a certain point on the hike we took at Robert H. Treman State Park this week, my family

I had to do a double take when I first saw it.  Could it actually be?  On the same lawn, two signs

  What do you call a sukkah with a frame and no walls? A Pandem-ikkah? A Corron-ikkah? or, perhaps a

  The use of the word “ach” or “brother” is sprinkled throughout the Torah in very deliberate and intentional places,

Judge, or ​Shofet​, was a relatively new concept in Biblical times. Four thousand years ago,people had started moving into larger

In the pantheon of human body parts, the heel is one of the most maligned.  Think about Greek mythology and the

There is no more common a phrase in the Torah as, “Vayidaber Adonai El Moshe Le’mor,” which translates roughly to,

Growing up in Troy, Alabama, as the son of sharecroppers, John Lewis, of blessed memory, lived a very sheltered early