Dear Friends:Recently I have fallen into a modest exercise routine which involves racking up steps on my pedometer most mornings while listening to classical music; truth be told, as an avid indoorsman, I am usually marching around in my basement.…

Dear Friends:According to the book Hebrew Ethical Wills, selected and edited by Israel Abrahams, there is a beautiful custom dating back millennia for Jews to compose testamentary directions for the religious and secular guidance of their children.  In Abrahams’ anthology,…

Dear Friends: When I was a kid, I enjoyed watching cartoons. The sign off for Looney Tunes (That’s All, Folks) meant time to go back to something more productive than television, and I was never terribly happy about that. Endings…

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…