The prerequisite to understanding any story is answering the question: What is its genre? This might seem like an easy task, but it’s really not. Let’s say that someone gets offended by a joke. The ...

Lessons from the Torah portions of Tazria and Metzora, the exact middle of the Torah, and how all three connect to the days ...

Of all the Festivals in our calendar, Shavuot can easily seem like the “unloved child”. Each of the other Festivals has its own special mitzvot: dwelling in the Sukkah and waving the Four Species on ...

Rabbi Sacks and the Torah’s Lesson for Global Diplomacy By Dr. Shmuel Legesse Photo Credit- Lior Mizrahi, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks In an era when mistrust between nations runs high, I ...

NITZAVIM-VA’YALECH, this m’chubar (double) portion is also the final weekly Torah portion of 5780. When the rest of the community was requited to quarantine in response to the COVID 19 virus, health ...

Many of us find it hard to relate to the Torah portion of Vayikra. It focuses on a practice that is no longer in use today. We learn of various types of sacrifices and how they were to be fulfilled on ...

It seems that if you scratch the surface of the latest political debate in the United States about federal funding for many governmental programs, you will find a bedrock philosophical disagreement ...

After repeatedly denouncing and prohibiting the creation of statues, portrayals of the human form, or anything resembling idols—on pain of death—God issues an unusual command. In the construction of ...

The scroll, donated in memory of the victims of October 7 and Operation Swords of Iron, calls for unity, attentiveness, and mutual respect. For prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist Haim Taib, ...

For almost half a century, Jewish students in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, have been learning the intricacies of chanting the Torah from a man who, when he was their age, was running for his life. When ...