Besides being a shul rabbi, I am a high school rebbe. This year I am fortunate to teach a medical ethics course to a select group of twelfth graders. This year I hope to cover topics ranging from ...

Two of the most important words in the Hebrew Scriptures are mishpat and tzedakah. Mishpat means giving people what they are due. It is often translated "justice." In the presence of injustice, ...

Now the Eternal had said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, since Abraham is to become a great and populous nation and all the nations of the earth are to bless themselves by him? For ...

One of the biggest misnomers in the Jewish vocabulary is the translation of tzedakah as “charity.” This mistranslation has gone on for so long in the American Jewish community that it's a hard habit ...