Why is the Omer period considered a period of semi-mourning? There are obscure hints and a lot of deliberate misinformation. The midrash...

Each year I try to count the Omer, and each year I fail. That’s ok. It’s my family tradition, not managing to count the Omer. Let me...

JUST ONE LETTER Just one letter is all it took to transform world history. In Exodus Chapter 1 verse 9 the ''Melech Chadash'', the new...

LAG B’OMER I read that it was the custom in some Eastern European towns and shtetls to visit their cemetery on Lag B’Omer to clean up the...

A Japanese reflection on counting the Omer On my first visit to Japan I was amused to hear music being played when the traffic lights...