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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Six High Ideals
"Rosh Ha-Shanah is a time for us to contemplate our highest ideals and our actual behavior. We make amends to ourselves, to one another, and to God for the gap." So writes Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artso…
Remembering James H. Cone
James H. Cone, The Bill and Judith Moyers Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Seminary in New York, died April 28 in Manhattan at the age of 79. Here is his obituary in The New Y…
Being Truly Alive
Teacher Wisdom
Seek always the blue moment. . . . It can happen any time or any place. It is a moment when you are truly alive to the world around you.
— Kent Nerburn in Letters to My Son
Gratitude for Trips Down Memory Lane
We are grateful that we can derive such pleasure from nostalgic trips down memory lane.
Research: Feeling nostalgic is often seen as a sign of depression, but a growing body of research suggests …
Rising above Stereotypes
by Kavya Shah
Strength is an overrated term; no one truly understands what it means to be strong or resilient.
Death of Novelist Robert Stone
In his brilliant and troubling 1981 novel A Flag For Sunrise, Robert Stone wrote: "It's the worst thing in the world when people turn you around because you're something else than them." We can reme…
The Universal Reach of Character Development
KIP charter schools are offering teachers, children, and parents pragmatic and adventuresome ways to talk about and develop character. Their approach is based on the research of Dr. Martin Seligman …
The Story of Life and Death
By Fatima Kazim
Everyone’s life is a story
Finding Meaning: Judaism and Time
By Adina Gerwin
In many ways, Judaism as a whole is a celebration of time.
Birds With Broken Wings Cannot Fly
Artwork by: Liz Fabiola, age 14
Written by: Lahore Grammar
Who are we without our dreams and desires?