Parashah Miketz is not a story of redemption, nor of success. It is a study in transformation under reversal: what happens to a human being when the conditions that shaped them are violently replaced ...

Arguing that the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra), dealing mainly with the laws of sacrifices in the Tabernacle, is likely the Torah’s “most ambiguous book,” Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo has made it the ...

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In our age of Facebook and Twitter, we know all too well how fast words can spread. When I was a kid, we played the game telephone, passing a word or phrase around the circle by whispering it into ...

Both are on the other side of the Jordan, beyond the west road that is in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah — near Gilgal, by the terebinths of Moreh” Deuteronomy 11:30 A torah ...

“May Hashem our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May we never be abandoned or forsaken” I Kings 8:57 A torah (Hebrew scripture) reading. The "yod" - a hand-shaped silver pointer - is used ...

Dr. Shlomo Chertok is a resident of Yeruham, and an educator, teaching English and Jewish Thought at the Lev Academic Center in Jerusalem. He was a Shaliach at the Torah Mitzion kollel during its ...

Turning an artistic experience towards the divine is the motto of Parashah, which includes four prominent dancers Turning an artistic experience towards the divine is the motto of Parashah, which ...

Arguing that the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra), dealing mainly with the laws of sacrifices in the Tabernacle, is likely the Torah’s “most ambiguous book,” Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo has made it the ...