This week’s parasha (Matot. Numbers 30:2-32:42) is one of the most difficult in the entire Torah for those of us who believe in a God of justice and compassion who cares deeply for all humanity, and ...

There is a great call for justice these days and rightly so. However, I am convinced that most of the people calling for justice have no idea what they are asking for. I do not believe that they know ...

Those who knew him well said he loved to joke, loved to laugh. He’d laughed much since the victory in Montgomery, the March on Washington, the cascade of accolades and roses bestowed by the Nobel ...

In Psalm.89:14 it talks about justice and righteousness. One defends the people, and does what is right by everyone. The other restrains violent acts, restrains the rebels and racists, and keeps ...

Choosing between candidates whose consciences are too clean. Some things were meant to be together. At least, that’s what I learned somewhere along the way about table manners. Even if you just want ...

I associate the rallying call “law and order” with right-leaning politicians of the 1960s, especially Richard Nixon. The phrase conveyed resolve and passion about ending the constant upheavals that ...

My Jim Crow parents used time-honored African storytelling to pass on their meaningful lessons and history to me. Growing up on land owned by white sharecroppers, my mother and father picked cotton in ...

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Bill Haley wrote the following in support of social justice: “Social justice is important for the simplest of reasons … it’s a prevalent theme in the Bible. That’s justification enough as we want to ...