A.D. Gordon viewed the world, the entirety of existence in fact, as a network of partnerships.

I keep thinking of Wollstonecraft, who took that leap of faith for all of us women, who risked everything and jumped into the waters herself, metaphorically and figuratively.

Many people want to pass on the books that they have so that others can make use of what they no longer need; however, the wise among them often fear that they lack the ability to discern what among their old books continues to be useful and what isn’t.

I believe that we can make space holy by designing it to be that way, not through our own will, but by shepherding and arranging elements of a space so that it conjures our most deeply held feelings and spiritual yearnings.

די סאָלדאַטן פֿונעם אַמעריקאַנער אַרמײ האָבן דערנענטערט יוטאַ, און די מאָרמאָנער האָבן זיך צוגעגרײט צו קעמפֿן. אָבער אין דער לעצטער מאָמענט, זײ האָבן שלום געמאַכט, און די אַמעריקאַנער ברירה פֿאַרן גובערנאַטאָר, אַלפֿרעד קומינג, האָט די שטעלע גענומען. אַחוץ די מאַסן־מאָרדערס, בוקאַנאָן האָט דערלאַנגט באַגענעדיקונג (מחילה) פֿאַר די מאָרמאָנער װאָלטן זײ געבליבן געטרײַ צו אַמעריקע.

Black Mountain would ultimately fail to attract almost any black students or faculty. Soltz credits this to the fact that the school, being unaccredited, was less useful to the type of Black students who might have been interested in the academic level of the school. But she also points to a serious failure of the culture.

We should get to know our students, respect them and let them know that we are here as companions, and know that their questioning of everything will help us, the adults, also question the systems that we have placed around us.

A street, neighborhood or city can, and usually does, reach a level of potency capable of carrying a spiritual identity that can be sensed or felt.

Our commentators struggled with the idea that God would now send Moses and Aaron with “cheap tricks” to try and make their appeal stronger.

"What happens in disasters demonstrates everything an anarchist ever wanted to believe about the triumph of civil society and the failure of institutional authority."

Black Mountain opened in 1933 and closed in 1956. It never enrolled more than a hundred students at a time, but it has had an outsized influence on American art, poetry, and education.

I got the sensation that this week we have entered a paradigm shift, which I define as an the ineffable moment when everything changes and our brains tell us that everything is the same.

In days to come all of us will either be directly affected by the fires or find that we have friends who are directly affected.

Wittgenstein’s main claim is that our language is limited when it comes to our ability to describe reality, and therefore our understanding of reality itself is limited as well.

צװישן אונדז בײַ דער נסתר איז אַ שפּאָגל נײַער געדאַנק אין אונדזער זעלבסט־אידענטיט, דאָס הײסט, אַן ענטפֿער צו דער שטענדיקער פֿראַגע, װאָס פֿאַר אַ שול זײַט איר? אָרטאָדאָקסיש? רעפֿאָרם?

For some, acculturating to America meant secularizing while remaining deeply committed to their cultural and ethnic identity as Jews. The establishment that most symbolizes this change in American Judaism is the kosher-style deli.

During our study of the Torah portion Vayishlach last month, I came across a story in Bereshit Rabbah, a Midrashic collection, that related to a Talmudic story that I am very close to. It has many differences from the Talmudic story. There is an agreed upon biography of Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai, the main character in these texts.

In Rabbinic literature, the Vision of the Dry Bones is interpreted in two main ways — the first, an actual “End of Days” resurrection of the dead, the second, an allegory for the Jews in exile and their return to Israel. There were of course later Hasidic interpretations which referred to the bones as inner desires of man and woman, resurrecting hopes and dreams which can never really die…

The Jewish people could neither depend on others for their needs, nor expect to serve those needs in a land that was not their own.

Who are the zealots of our time? Are they the Orthodox Jews of Brooklyn? The religious Zionists in Israel? Or maybe the Ultra Orthodox in both?