Father Ricardo Rivera, a theology teacher at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has gone viral for his dance moves during a pep rally cnn.it/2JDwvBD

Rabbi Sacks meant so much to Orit Kwasman and me in our growth as Jews. He will continue to inspire countless generations, including my family around our Shabbat table and in our growth as Jews. Baruch Dayan HaEmet.

Each day, with the coverage of the Biden as president-elect, Trump’s insistence that he’s the true winner will seem more wan and detached from reality

Watching Joe Biden tonight, I had a simple, basic feeling: It’s so good to have a normal president again.

Growing up, my Muslim family never celebrated Christmas. This year I am not going home, because pandemic, so my roommates are teaching me how to have my first proper Christmas. I am approaching this with anthropological precision. Here are a few observations.

May Christmas be an opportunity for all of us to rediscover the family as a cradle of life and faith, a place of acceptance and love, dialogue, forgiveness, fraternal solidarity and shared joy, a source of peace for all humanity.

The three repulsive architects of Wednesday’s heartbreaking spectacle — mobs desecrating the Republic’s noblest building and preventing the completion of a constitutional process — must be named, and forevermore shunned. washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump…

Today is a reminder, a painful one, that democracy is fragile. To preserve it requires people of good will, leaders with the courage to stand up, who are devoted not to pursuit of power and personal interest at any cost, but to the common good.

Behind the viral photo of Rep. Andy Kim cleaning up at midnight after riots nbcnews.com/news/asian-ame… via NBC News

I am praying for the United States of America, shaken by the recent attack on Congress. I pray for those who lost their life. Violence is always self-destructive. I urge everyone to promote a culture of encounter and of care to construct the common good.

“No one would have blamed Garth Brooks if he had passed on this invitation. Against the dark forces of division and hate, the most powerful action we can take is to keep showing up.” I write for Los Angeles Times L.A. Times Opinion #Inauguration2021 latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Let's check in on the U.S. Navy band.

According to Mr. R. J. Campbell it is morbid to confess your sins. I should say that the morbid thing is not to confess them. The morbid thing is to conceal your sins and let them eat your heart out, which is the happy state of most people in highly civilized communities.

God became a child to be closer to the men and women of every time, and to show us His infinite tenderness.

#TFASthrowback to students in the #TFAS Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems in 1986. #TFAS friends, please spread the word to young leaders about our 2018 academic internship programs in Washington, D.C. Learn more at DCinternships.org.

Read about 2017 #TFAS George Viksnins Scholar Zane Kalniņa and her time as a TFAS student from JBANC Baltics: bit.ly/2lWfxC1

Jim Mattis on Steve Bannon: "I'm almost certain he never said a word" at Pentagon meetings washex.am/2EWojsi