Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman

Looking to God for answers in horrible times isn’t a rational thing to do. That may be why it’s so valuable.

While studying another arcane tractate of the Talmud, I recall my childhood lessons with my father and my struggle to understand everything he taught me

Recalling battles between nations, and between relatives, at a family funeral

What would it have taken to make her happy?

A walk to shul in South Florida reminded me how my observance has—and hasn’t—changed over the course of my life

Decoding what made Abraham Joshua Heschel such a complicated and unique man—in the Jewish world, American culture, and our family—50 years after his death

Judaism and psychoanalysis both taught me that we can become something different, something better than what we have been

The lessons my mother taught me about how to stay safe, and why I bought a scooter anyway

My father’s luxury car and my battle against Satan

What an old rebbe’s fable can teach us about the war in Ukraine

Finding room to talk about the divine in psychotherapy

Baseball, my father, God, and madness

Aaron T. Beck, the developer of cognitive behavioral therapy who died last week, took a Jewish approach when he battled the orthodoxies of psychoanalytic theory

At what point do our obligations to the dead give way to our own wishes?

What I learned by giving up sleep in favor of study on Shavuot