blogs/brentspodek

Jews have been outsmarting, outrunning and outlasting tyrants - both petty and terrifying - since the dawn of human history. 

Here are some tips and tricks from the...Read more...

This has been an extraordinarily difficult month for the Jewish community in America. 

We watched in anguish as the news unfolded of an antisemitic act of terror in a kosher market in Jersey City, committed by a radicalized member of the Black Hebrew...Read more...

Bryan Stevenson is one of the most powerful advocates for changing, improving and really, healing our country today. 

Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery, Alabama-based non-profit that provides...Read more...

The patriarch Abraham is well into his 90s when the Holy One tells him that he will have a son in this weeks parsha, Lech Lecha. Not only that, this son will inherit his property and his descendants will be more numerous than the stars of the sky. 

Abe has his doubts – “shall a child be born to a man 100 years old?” he asks. Yet the Holy One insists that Abraham will have a child with his wife...Read more...

I think this may be a story of control submitting to grace. But first some background. For six years now, my synagogue, Beacon Hebrew Alliance in Beacon, NY, has built a sukkah in a public park on Main Street. Each year there’s a different theme, with programming...Read more...