Charlie Levin

D’var Torah: Lessons in Leadership

Charlie Levin This week’s Torah portion is Nitzavim-Vayelech: Deuteronomy 29:9 — 31:30 This week’s Torah portions are Nitzavim and Vayelech and they talk about Joshua being...
Rabbi Michael Werbow

D’var Torah: The Covenant and the Choices We Make

By Rabbi Michael Werbow This week’s Torah portion Ki Tavo: Deuteronomy 26:1 — 29:8 We often see that for a single Hebrew word in the Torah...

D’var Torah: The Wayward Son and Our Effects on Others

By Rabbi Eric L. Abbott This week’s Torah portion is Ki Teitzei: Deuteronomy 21:10 — 25:19 As a father to young children, I often contemplate the...
Rabba Daphne Lazar Price

D’var Torah: No One Left by the Roadside

By Rabba Daphne Lazar Price This week’s Torah portion is Shoftim: Deuteronomy 16:18 — 21:9 At first glance, Parshat Shoftim seems like a patchwork of unrelated...

D’var Torah: The Meaning of the Mezuzah

By Rabbi Geri Newburge This week’s Torah portion is Re’eh: Deuteronomy 11:26 — 16:17 Earlier in Deuteronomy we read the instruction to “write them upon the...
Rabbi Steven Bayar

D’var Torah: What Does God Want?

By Rabbi Steven Bayar This week’s Torah portion is Eikev: Deuteronomy 7:12 — 11:25 The Book of Deuteronomy is Moses’ “swan song” — Moses bequeaths his...

D’var Torah: Va’etchanan: Our People’s Odyssey

By Rabbi Marc D. Israel This week’s Torah portion is Va’etchanan: Deuteronomy 3:23 — 7:11 The release of the film “The Odyssey” last weekend was a...

D’var Torah: Names Are Not Just Labels

By Rabbi Jon Roos This week’s Torah portion is Devarim: Deuteronomy 1:1 — 3:22 I can tell how and from where people know me by the...

D’var Torah: Ringing a Bell of Rights; And What’s Right

By Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb This week’s Torah portion is Matot-Masei: Numbers 30:2 — 36:13 This week’s double portion concludes the Torah’s main narrative. What’s the...

D’var Torah: The Hallmarks of a Good Leader

Rabbi Evan Krame This week’s Torah portion is Pinchas: Numbers 25:10 — 30:1 This election season feels like the “Hunger Games.” Candidates enter the political arena...