Rabbi Jack with Lindsey and Zachary under the chuppah Dear Friends:This being another in a series of quarterly missives from a physics rabbi, I’d like to share with you a few thoughts about relationships, mostly from a Jewish perspective (don’t…

Four lessons that my mother, Shirley Shlachter of blessed memory, taught me. My mother taught me to say thanks. So let me begin by thanking the Los Alamos Jewish Center for organizing this event, for providing me with a slot…

I was asked to write a blog post for “Sinai and Synapses” about my being both a rabbi and a scientist. When I was five years old, I received a Newtonian reflecting telescope as a Hanukkah present from my parents.…