There is a troubling Rashi at the beginning of this week’s Parsha that, when explored in depth, reveals an important spiritual lesson and...

In July 2014, a series of experiments conducted by Dr. Timothy Wilson and his colleagues at University of Virginia and Harvard were...

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In the last week, the Jewish community suffered two gargantuan losses with the passing of HaRav Dovid Feinstein z”l and Rabbi Lord...

In March 1964, the assault and murder of a young woman named Kitty Genovese sparked horror and outrage when the New York Times reported...

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Like many characters in Tanach, Noach is singularly righteous and enigmatic. Often, in the descriptions of Biblical personalities, it is...

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There is a particularly gruesome “How To” project about which you have probably never been curious, and which is an integral metaphor for...

Though there is a great deal of debate in the field of psychology regarding the relevance of one’s past to his or her current concerns or...

In November 1785, after accidentally upending a mouse’s nest with his plow, Scottish farmer and poet Robert Burns penned the heartfelt...

Like my ninth grade classmates and I, some of you might have had the dubious honor of reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The...

In the introduction to her incredibly moving and thought-provoking memoir “The Choice,” psychologist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eva...

Anyone who knows me well knows that I like to tell stories about my nieces and nephews. I may be biased, but I personally believe there...

In this week’s Torah portion, Moshe continues his parting speech to the Jewish people, recounting his fervent attempts to entreat Hashem...

Vengeance is timeless and intrinsically human, threading its way through classical literature, theater, science, and history. The desire...

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One of the tenets of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is that it is important to find the synthesis between seemingly disparate ideas....