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Last week we started a new book of the Torah, and the text took a turn into a whole new direction.

This past week, Erin Berger, Lindsay Fineman and I went on a study mission to Tallinn, Estonia; Riga, Latvia; and Budapest, Hungary, as part of our participation in National Young Leadership Cabinet, the premier leadership development program that educates and connects the next generation of global Jewish leaders and philanthropists.  

Four years ago, Michelle Niedens, now director of the Cognitive Care Unit at the KU Medical Center’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, said, “Wouldn’t it be great if our new airport was dementia-friendly?”

There are too many variables to guarantee an ideal Seder.

This is it; this is the week that gravity kicks in.

Parashat Tetzaveh has the unique distinction of being read every non-leap year immediately prior to Purim.

The recent appearance by renowned biblical scholar Robert Alter at the Kansas City Public Library gave a large in-person and Zoom audience dozens of delightful moments from a serious man nearing the end of a terrific and consequential career.

There was a town filled with good people who cared about one another, cared about the world, and cared about doing what’s right.

Once, when I was studying in yeshiva, one of the rabbis stayed with his family in the yeshiva for Shabbat.

I find myself overwhelmed by the magnitude of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.