Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld

This year the first night of Passover Seder is Friday night, April 6th. And on this special and holy night, I want to encourage everyone who participates in a Seder to "gossip."

C'mon rabbi! You know that it is a great sin to gossip, so why would you tell...

Dear Rick,

I know you to be a man of deep faith in God and a person whose faith causes you to have a strong sense of responsibility to improve the world. Several years ago I heard you speak passionately about the threat of a nuclear Iran to the...

In his masterful autobiography, Out of the Depths, the former chief rabbi of Israel, Israel Meir Lau, tells the story of his time as a young boy in Buchenwald. Outside Buchenwald there was a sign which read in German, "Each man to his own fate."

Rabbi Lau...