Kozlowski would be in a position to put together tutoring classes in how to write a résumé, how to apply for a job, how to get a GED. Those would serve him well with other prisoners.

The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

My guess is they'll put her in a metropolitan correctional center in either Manhattan or Philadelphia,

Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.

The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether those within the covenanted community itself or those between the covenanted community and the outside world.