The Teshuvah We Need Now

The Teshuvah We Need Now By Rabbi Ira Stone At this season of Teshuvah, I‘m thinking about the destruction of millions of Africans stolen from their homelands, forced into chattel slavery for close to 250 years and kept in a state of semi-slavery, excluded by Jim Crow...

Yetzer haTov and Democracy

I have always believed that the ideals of American democracy were a sure sign of the Infinite Source of Goodness in the Cosmos. The very fact that those ideals were articulated by very flawed human beings, people who sanctioned the genocide of the native population,...