It is no small feat to tell a story with a foregone conclusion. After all, much of what makes a story engaging is the anticipation of...

There is a war raging in the Middle East. But there is also one being fought on social media. And they both scare me in equal measure. We...

If a book makes you want to keep reading to figure out what happens but massively underwhelms in the end, how do you evaluate its...

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones.” Winston Churchill is quoted as saying this in 1947. You’d...

“But what if it had been your family?” This is the question people always seem to ask when discussing the death penalty. What if YOU were...

As our societal awareness of mental health has grown, so too has an industry focused on selling us the best ways to take care of our...

Sometimes a song hits you in just the right moment. The weather might have the perfect conditions, or the feelings of the day might...

There are a LOT of self-help books out there. This does beg the question: if the books are any good, why do we need so many? It seems...

The trailer for the new Netflix movie Luckiest Girl Alive caught my attention. Mila Kunis is a favorite of mine, and a suspenseful drama...

During the hardest parts of the COVID shutdown, my wife and I watched a lot of stand-up comedy. There was something refreshing about...

Life’s too short to read bad books. And the old adage about “don’t judge a book by its cover” is a lot of phooey. Because you can usually...

The sports industry has been surprisingly puzzling in the past decade or so. During a period of entertainment innovation, you would think...

Books on personal growth are as popular as ever, likely because it is pretty darn difficult to be a human being in the modern world....

Ritual is an essential component of Judaism. Zionist essayist Ahad Ha’am famously said “more than Israel has kept Shabbat, Shabbat has...

I so badly wanted to like this book. In fact, I am, in many ways, trying to WRITE this book. But Why Do Jewish: A Manifesto for 21st...

Jacob is the last of our major patriarchs in Judaism, and his death closes the book of Genesis. Throughout his story, we see a...

“Watson struggles in season debut.” That was the notification I got this weekend from the NFL. I wouldn’t have known any other way. I...

Different people approach the Bible with different needs. Some read the book in order to learn the history of our people (reading the...

Generally, when we read the Bible, we are looking for lessons about how we can live a more fulfilling, meaningful, moral life. But the...

We aren’t supposed to play favorites, but I think Genesis is the best book in the Bible. There is so much nuance to each of the stories,...