For several years, I have worked with b'nai mitzvah students and families to prepare Torah and Haftarah readings for the big day. I have...

This blog is a collection of my masters work in the areas of Jewish communal leadership and education. A wide range of topics are...

Our study of leadership this semester began with a discussion of the importance of vision (Bor, 2021a). Galperin also stresses the...

Ancient and modern societies alike have been fascinated by the intricacy of dynamic leadership. Although there is no formula for...

I. Introduction There are certain rites of passage that Jewish people around the world share. For most, the bar or bat mitzvah ceremony,...

In 1956, ten families met to share their dream of forming a Jewish spiritual home in a cottage in Randallstown, Maryland. The community...

The Joseph Story is one of the central narratives of the bible. It connects the narratives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to the Israelite...

The prophecies of Jeremiah are inextricably intertwined with the politics of his era. This paper will explore the role of prophets, like...

In 1999, nineteen-year-old computer programmer Shawn Fanning and twenty-year-old Shawn Parker created Napster, a peer-to-peer file...

There I stood on the millennium stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as one of the forty members of Zemer Chai, the Jewish...

Many years ago, I was invited to participate in the Connecticut State Assembly Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony. In addition to chanting...