Parshat Ki Tisa: What the census teaches us
By Hailey Cohen
My Torah portion is about the census of the Jewish people. Instead of doing the census the way we do it today,...
Parshat Terumah: Creating sacred space
By Rabbi Jennifer Weiner
How many of us are Zoomed out? In the beginning of Zoom world, it was exciting. Yet, as the months dragged...
Parshat Mishpatim: ‘You shall be holy people to Me’
By Rabbi Ilan Glazer
After the Ten Commandments, we might think God and our ancestors would bask in the glow of their new connection. Alas,...
Parshat Yitro: They tried to kill us. We keep God before us. Let’s eat.
By Rabbi Alana Suskin
The Ten Commandments, which appear for the first time in this week’s parshah, begin with the statement, “I am the Lord...
Parshat Bo: Facing the Pharaohs of every generation
By Rabbi John Franken
This week witnesses the dramatic growth of Moses from a timid shepherd reluctant to take on the most powerful tyrant on...
Parshat Shemot: Choosing awe over fear
By Rabbi Elissa Sachs-Kohen
The fiercest defense against tyranny may be the refusal to go along with its worldview.
When a new Pharaoh arises who does...
Parshat Vayechi: Joseph’s lesson of forgiveness
By Rabbi Craig Axler
The end of Parshat Vayechi portrays Joseph’s death scene: “Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years and...
Parshat Vayigash: Looking at Egypt’s famine through the lens of COVID-19
By Sonya Starr
This week’s Torah portion, a continuation of last week’s, is the story of Joseph’s brothers’ willingness to do anything, including emigrate, to...
Parshat Vayeshev/Chanukah | Looking past conflict to find holiness
By Rabbi John Franken
The acclaimed new book, “War: How Conflict Shaped Us,” makes a fascinating argument. War, it says, is baked into humans like...
Chanukah | Kindling the Chanukah lights
By Rabbi Nochum Katsenelenbogen
Chanukah, the festival of Lights, recalls the victory — more than 2100 years ago — of a militarily weak but spiritually...
