I know a woman who spent her summers growing up in a small town on…
In the section of the Pentateuch that will be read in synagogue this coming Sabbath…
Charles Darwin is fascinating to read, from many viewpoints. There is, of course, the obvious…
This past Saturday, November 16, a little before 2 a.m., my wife, our dog, and…
It was lovely out in the country. Summer had come; the wheat in the fields…
For more than thirty years, I spent at least part of almost every summer in…
It is the rainy season in Beersheba, Israel, where I live. After the long, hot,…
In The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin writes about a “Sacred Tree.” He came…
Sometimes I become so focussed on achieving a particular goal that I miss the significance…
In his essay, “Circles,” Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th-century American lecturer, poet, and philosopher, wrote:…
Gershon Ben-Avraham 