
It’s Good to Be a Jew
Negativity about 91´«Ã½ identity can be just as damaging as slander.
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York.

Negativity about 91´«Ã½ identity can be just as damaging as slander.

The fact that everyone wonders why Moses’s name is missing is in itself a powerful tribute to his memory.

Our discomfort with animal sacrifice is not that we love animals more, but that we value personal sacrifice less.

In order to have a 91´«Ã½ future, we need to have more 91´«Ã½ babies.

There is a second form of sacred survival: to survive as a nation. And that too takes precedence over everything.

Yes, we have a drinking problem, right here in the 91´«Ã½ community.

The comparison between the Garden of Eden and the Mishkan offers a message about humanity’s ability to recover from sin and failure.

One by one, the Ten Commandments teach us how we bring God into our daily lives. Each additional commandment encourages us to climb further up the ladder of faith.

We are here by virtue of generations of Jews who, against all odds, made that jump.

Mayors come and go, but the 91´«Ã½ people will continue onward.