The Torah portion of Ki Tavo begins with a description of the people's entry into the land. And it will be, when you come into the land which Hashem, your G-d, gives you for an inheritance, and you ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a world that races forward at breakneck speed, Katia Bolotin’s Making It Relevant feels like a quiet revolution. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...