When Sherre Hirsch, a Los Angeles rabbi, had adolescent woes about boyfriends or school, her grandmother used to repeat an old Yiddish saying: “We plan, God laughs.” Hirsch, now 39 and the mother of ...

"But Thou, O Lord, dost laugh at them; Thou dost scoff at all the nations" (Psalm 59:8). Was it Erma Bombeck who once said, "Know how to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans." Or was that Joan Rivers?

“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the mockers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he ...

MANITOWOC – “Why do you love me? I’m such a handful.” These words, spoken by Ruthie from the playwright Sean Grennan’s love letter to families everywhere, were never truer. Every family has those ...

On Nov. 30, 2009, John Whitehead of That Rutherford Guy posted a column in the Daily Press entitled “Have we forgotten God?” His observations of religious values and faith being supplanted by “rampant ...