For most of my life, I didn’t consider gratitude a particularly Jewish emotion. Quite the contrary. I grew up a secular Jew, my cultural knowledge filtered through Neil Simon and Philip Roth more than ...

On the morning of their father’s yartzeit ceremony in Israel several years ago, Sarah Berkovits’ brother, Berel Berkovits, simply didn’t wake up. Recalling that day in her book Gratitude with Grace, ...

When my husband Anthony and I arrived this summer in San Diego, where I now serve Congregation Dor Hadash, we didn’t yet have a place to live. Luckily our friend, the great teacher Henny Kupferstein, ...

Thanksgiving connects America’s founding story with the Jewish story of a people who fled oppression, crossed the waters and gave thanks upon reaching a promised land. The link between the Pilgrims ...

Gratitude is one of those easy cliches. No matter how rough life gets, we can always find something to be thankful for. I remember how during the long, anxious months of COVID lockdowns, when physical ...

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Gratitude is the fertile soil from which human nobility takes root. The 11th-century Spanish philosopher Rabbi Bachya ibn Pakuda identified gratitude not merely as an admirable trait but the gateway ...

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump shake hands at their meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, 2017 The Jewish concept of repentance hinges upon ...

Thanksgiving has so much potential to be a wonderful, inspirational holiday but it has become practically an American minhag (ritual custom) to express gratitude by gorging ourselves and spending tons ...

Rabbi Joseph S. Kornfeld of Columbus, Ohio, United States Minister to Persia, was presented by the representatives of the Persian Jews with a silver plate inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The ...