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From the blog of David Walk at The Times of Israel

In 1966 an 11-year-old black boy moved with his parents and family to a white neighborhood in Washington.

From the blog of Jonathan Sacks at The Times of Israel

I am ready to perform the  mitzvah of Counting the Ankle, as it is written in the WebMD Bible: You are to count seven complete weeks From the end of the operation On the day the cast was set and the Ankle immobile, To the day after the end of the seventh week you shall count fifty days… Today is the first day of the Omer. It was surgery, not Seder and I am counting the unexpected kindnesses in the hospital. I was meant to be home, enjoying the Diaspora’s second Seder, but I fell on my ankle on Friday night and was whisked to hospital by our local Hatzala ambulance.  My ankle was thoroug...

A Post-Pesach Thought from Rabbi Chaim Ingram OAM Presently the British Royal Family is undergoing one of its periodic mini-crises. Amid the uncomfortable spotlight resting upon the relationship between the Sussexes and the other senior Royals, another worst-kept royal secret was recently revealed in the popular press, namely that the Queen is “constantly exasperated” and “puzzled” by the behaviour of her first-born son, Prince Charles, heir apparent. It got me thinking: Do parents expect more from their firstborns than their other children? I believe they do. And I wonder what the u...