“I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.” – Abby Wambach, international soccer superstar Tonight, I address you for the final time as President of KI, after four gratifying one-year terms.  I’ll share with you my profound thanks, a perspective on service, a...

Everyone’s talking about the Knicks. The Knicks this and the Knicks that. This is their first championship in fifty-three years. They are a comeback story. They are an underdog story. No one picked them. Then they put an entire city on their back and did the impossible. They knocked out...

I grew up in Iowa surrounded by the potential of food. Endless rows of corn and soybean fields stretched farther than the eye could see. One of our favorite family activities was simply driving to admire the beauty of the possibility planted in the earth. There was something holy about...

Our Torah portion this week begins with a manual on lighting the lamps of the first ever synagogue: ‘When you light the lamps, let seven lamps give light at the front… and Aaron did so, lighting the lamps at the front as God commanded… Each lampstand was a hammered work...