Much of the Book of Devarim deals with the obligation we have as a people to remain separate. We are obligated not to follow the customs of the people whose land we are conquering nor to assimilate ourselves among them. This is due to a culture and...

I recently returned from leading a delegation of 19 students from Washington University in St. Louis to Israel to learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This fact-finding mission, called the Campus Leaders Israel Experience, travels through...

Justice is elusive. We learn this from this week’s Torah portion,  the famous tzedek tzedek — justice reiterated and pursued (Deuteronomy 16:20) — a reminder that justice, true justice, transformative justice, necessary justice, requires us to...