"How could God kill all those Egyptians? What if some were innocent? Should they die with those who were truly evil?"

As I prepare for Passover this year, I'm haunted by these questions from Charlotte Davies, an insightful and sensitive 13-year-old girl (delivered at her recent bat mitzvah ceremony.)...

Last year before Christmas I got a Facebook message from my church-going high school sweetheart. (We still write, yes, and don't worry folks, my wife knows about it.)

"My sister has just converted to Judaism. My children are very interested in this. They'd all learned the dreidel song and...

After I posted an article on Facebook about Anat Hoffman, the Israeli woman arrested last week for praying in a tallit at the Western Wall, a friend and colleague, who happens to be an Orthodox rabbi, messaged me on Google chat to ask why I was bothered by...

In the past week, a video of the hip-hop superstar Aubrey Drake Graham has become the most watched bar mitzvah film clip in human history. The video of the song HYFR has garnered more than 1 million viewers on YouTube, and features the 24-year old Drake having a...

Should Catholic hospitals that receive federal dollars be required to provide their employees with contraceptives?

This was the heated debate on talk radio as I drove up the New Jersey Turnpike recently. I tuned in because I was one of the many people who had seen the photo of...

An e-mail popped into my inbox this morning:

"It would be wonderful if we have men standing with us!"

It was a message from a Canadian woman, Peggy Sakow, who is an advocate for the hundreds of thousands of girls and women across the world sold into slavery as...