Words matter to Jews. Language matters. Hebrew, filled with beauty and poetic power, is a language in which words carry not just superficial meaning, not just historical context, but also deep ...

The Hebrew month of Elul offers us an opportunity to prepare for the High Holy ... Elul Self-Reflection # 20 Lovingkindness / Chesed. In Pirkei Avot, we learn that “the world stands on ...

Activist and Harvard professor Cornel West used the “chesed,” Hebrew for kindness, during a Bernie Sanders campaign event in New Hampshire. “We got a deep Jewish brother named Bernie Sanders ...

“When West talks about love, he often invokes the Hebrew word chesed, which in the Jewish tradition means ­ ‘loving-kindness,’” according to a 2012 profile in New York magazine.