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...
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...
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...
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...










