Fairytales and stories are replete with perfect worlds where ideals are made manifest: ideas of beauty, concepts of justice, and…
Two Minutes of Torah
We know that words have the power to hurt and the power to heal, and we also know that sometimes,…
This week’s double Torah portion, Achrei Mot/Kedoshim, sends a goat straight to hell in a curious ritual of expiation. Or,…
Tazria-Metzora, perhaps the most challenging parsha of the most challenging book of the Torah for us moderns. This double portion…
Have you ever felt entirely unequal to the task in front of you? The Hebrew prophetic tradition is famously known…
Our parsha this week happens to be one of my favorites – not because it is a particularly happy tale,…
The formative Jewish narrative — more than the creation of the State of Israel, more than the days of creation,…
Arnold Eisen, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary (the Conservative Movement’s rabbinical school), teaches that the Book of Leviticus, which…
There is a common misconception that art was not an historic part of the ancient Israelite, and indeed, Jewish worship…
“Today I am a man; tomorrow I return to the 7th grade” goes the classic joke about religious maturity occurring…