Judaism

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — “It was a hundred years ago,” said the gentleman encountered at a conference. “Why do you people still keep talking about it?” I corrected him and responded that it was not a hundred years ago; that the Wannsee Conference of top Nazi officers—a number of whom held doctorates—was

TORONTO — Our Jewish-interest license plate spotter, Michael Glassman, found this one, proclaiming the driver to be a Yiddishe Mama.

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO– Hashem (G-d) commanded Noach to build an ark because He wanted people to have the opportunity to see what was going on and repent. Noach’s job was not just to build a boat, but to lead people back to the proper path. The Seforno (Gen. 6:8) teaches that Noach failed

  By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — A lot of things flash before you as you anticipate the event: the time another man, much less worthy than the one she’s marrying, toyed with her heart; the late night call she made from London, quivering with anxiety about academics, the distance, the sense of loneliness,

 By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK –The three women in the class unanimously favored one point of view. The six men were evenly split, three agreeing with the women and three disagreeing vehemently. Last week, I introduced readers of this column to another experiment of mine in which I used the book of Genesis

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Space exploration has always fascinated me so I followed the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket last Sunday with great interest. On Wednesday, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station with close to 1,000 lbs of supplies. It was the first private commercial non-NASA supply mission