Two Flags. One Covenant.

In August 1790, George Washington sat down to answer a letter. The Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, had written to their new president, anxious men in a young country, unsure whether the freedom they had just won would extend to a people rarely welcome anywhere

You’ve read the Bible. But have you read it like this?

Eight out of ten Americans call themselves Bible believers. Fewer than half can name the first five books. Sixty percent cannot name even five of the Ten Commandments. And according to researchers who have tracked this for decades, it is getting worse every year.

The book of Judges and the crisis of belonging

Before I made aliyah to Israel, I spent nearly a decade as a teacher. During my graduate studies in education, one of my professors assigned a book called Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon.