Jewish history from the Exodus until today has been about the ongoing refinement of laws which define who we really are as a ...
Recounting for the first time the story of an entire people who, after long years of harsh and grueling bondage, emerge into ...
In our generation, we are privileged to encounter women whose learning, commitment, and spiritual leadership who serve the ...
Every Shabbos, Jews in synagogues of all denominations hear the cantor, rabbi or a layperson chant that week’s Torah portion from an open scroll. But Yiddish scholar Sheva Zucker says you don’t need ...
Did God rob Pharaoh of his free will in the Exodus story? Or, counterintuitively, did God simply strengthen it?
The story of every nation is the story of its leaders — and how they leave, writes the author of the forthcoming “The Torah of Leadership.” We often invoke the Hebrew phrase “l’dor v’dor,” from ...
A young woman is gingerly applying lipstick for her upcoming date, unaware of the horrible fate awaiting her. This may sound like the description of a new Netflix drama but it’s actually a scene in a ...
This week’s Torah portion is about mass fear, or better put, how to stave off mass fear. Mass fear makes people, and groups of people, think, say, and do irrational and destructive things. You ...
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Months of probing the Torah's Exodus while producing a new Haggadah confirmed the cycle of Jewish history for me: Persecution ...
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman discusses Parashat Mishpatim, which dives into case law: damages, injuries, lost property, workers’ ...
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