Mah Tovu? What Is Good?
By Rabbi Erica Steelman
This week’s Torah portion is Balak:
Numbers 22:2 – 25:9
Dear Mother,
I just returned home from a rather strange experience. I hope by...
Biblical Chutzpah Hall of Fame
By Rabbi Eli Seidman
This week’s Torah portion is Korach: Numbers 16:1 - 18:32
Author Leo Rosten defines the term “chutzpah” as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery,...
Sacred Imagination: On God, Statehood and the Power of Imagining Justice
Rabbi Jenna Shaw
This week’s Torah portion is Tazria-Metzora: Leviticus 12:1 - 15:33
One of my favorite, radical Hasidic ideas is that God changes throughout the...
What Is ‘Chanukah’?
Rabbi Neil Tow
This week’s Torah portion is Mikeitz: Genesis 41:1 - 44:17.
Some of us spell it “Hanukkah.”
And others spell it “Chanukah.”
Josephus calls it “Festival...
Parshat Bereshit: From Chaos Comes Creation
Rabbi Amanda K. Weiss
“… the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and the spirit of God sweeping...
Shifting the Conversation
Rabbi Jenna Shaw
I joke that I was raised with two religions: Judaism and baseball. It wasn’t until Yom Kippur 2016 that I saw how...
Parshat Nitzavim-Vayelech: Being Open to the Ideas of Others
Asher Brook
This week’s Torah portion is Nitzavim-Vayelech, and the haftarah comes from the Book of Yeshayahu, or in English, Isaiah.
In this week’s haftarah portion,...
Ki Tova: Can It Really Be a “Happy” New Year?
Rabbi Eitan Cooper
As we prepare to usher in 5785, still reeling from the tragedy and shock of 5784, one wonders if the upcoming Rosh...
Parshat Shoftim: Staying Strong and Strengthening Others
By Miriam Grysmintz
This week’s parsha includes the law: “From among your own people, your God will raise up for you a prophet like myself;...
Parshat Shoftim: Pursuing Justice
By Blake Glovitch
This week’s Torah portion is Shoftim. In this Torah portion, the Israelites are given instructions from Moshe to appoint judges and law...
