David Stav
ARTICLES BY: David Stav
Ukraine and Purim: A Call for Jewish Unity
While every Jewish holiday involves an element of communal unity, the holiday of Purim is particularly one that celebrates togetherness. Giving to the poor, delivering food...
Combatting Assimilation: An Ancient and Modern Commandment
It was recently reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted as saying that the future of world Jewry was limited to the Orthodox...
Human Sanctity and the Animal Kingdom
In this week’s reading of Parshat Noah, the Torah presents the first in a series of teachings where God imparts a code of ethics for how our “new world”...
The (Face)Book of Life
There is a story told about one of the rabbinical sages of the 19th century. Someone brought this rabbi a model of a telephone shortly after it...