The ability of spoken or written words to evoke an emotional response is puzzling. When…
Exodus chapters 25:1-27:19 will be read in the synagogue this coming Sabbath, February 20, 2021.…
In his book, God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, author Adam Nicolson makes,…
Do creators have obligations to their creations? Do poets, for example, have any duty to…
On November 27, 1928, a wedding took place in Warsaw, Poland. At the time, Warsaw…
As the Hebrews, formerly slaves in Egypt, are making their way to the land of…
In ordinary times, the Kriyas haTorah [“Reading of the Torah”] occurs publicly in the synagogue…
I spent many delightful hours one summer reading David Copperfield to Mrs. Vera Wardner Dougan…
In the summer of 1815, the poet John Keats and his friend Charles Cowden Clarke…
I wasn’t with my father when he died. No one was. In his music school’s…
Gershon Ben-Avraham 