When the Torah counts the people by tribes and families, it teaches the art of integration: Each individual is counted on his ...

Shabbat is a special and elevated day. It doesn’t only give us rest, it lifts us up. Shabbat elevates the week that just ...

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 ...

The Book of Numbers begins with a head count of the entire Jewish people, before they depart from their Sinai encampment on their way to the Promised Land. Moses organizes this massive undertaking, ...

The great Maya Angelou once wrote, “we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” But are we? Are our similarities strong enough to bridge the distance we often feel from our fellow man? On a ...

Rabbi George Stern This week’s Torah portion is Shoftim: Deuteronomy 16:18 - 21:9 I have always resonated strongly with this week’s parashah (Torah portion), Shoftim. As... By Rabbah Arlene Berger ...

I find many apt connections between significant modern Jewish historical events and the Torah portions that are read during the week coinciding with their occurrence. According to the standard pattern ...

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1. This week’s Torah portion is Ki Teitzei. This is the sixth Torah portion in the book of Deuteronomy. It is a continuation of Moshe Rabbeinu’s farewell address to the nation, but is also his ...

Our Torah portion, Emor, has the most detailed list in the Torah of the Jewish Festivals and other Holy Days. This Torah portion gives us the opportunity not only to study what the various holidays ...

Most people think the Bar Mitzvah is a religious ceremony in which the 13-year-old assumes adult responsibilities according to Jewish law and tradition. It is. But it is also an opportunity to push ...