• May 11, 2019
  • 3 min

Lurking within is the Holy Urge

Parshat Toldot 1 F WE COULD X-RAY OUR HEARTS — NOT THE fist-sized muscle, but the pulsating center from which our dreams and desires...

  • May 11, 2019
  • 3 min

a SLOW bURNING eXPLOSION LIKE THE sUN

Parshat Shmot SOMETIMES, THINGS GET WORSE before they get better. Sometimes, things get worse even as they are getting better— as...

  • May 11, 2019
  • 3 min

War Damage

Parshat Naso Who fought the first religious war? The answer, according to Genesis, is Cain and Abel: "Cain brought an offering to the...

  • May 11, 2019
  • 4 min

gATEWAY OF THE pERSECUTED

Parshat Vayetze Jacob, escaping his murderously angry brother, more or less stumbles unto "the gates of heaven," described laconically in...

  • May 6, 2019
  • 7 min

Power to the People

Torah' for Israel's Jubilee May 1998 (first published Jerusalem Report) For 50 years, Israelis have allowed the state to shape their...

  • Apr 29, 2019
  • 4 min

Jewish Intimacy: Nitzavim VaYelech

Losing God and Finding Him is Part of What it Means to be a Jew GOOD NEWS: WE ARE NOT THE FIRST generation to be fraught with alarm over...

  • Apr 4, 2019
  • 1 min

parshat hashavua

this is about the Torah portion of the week So here will be all kinds of writings from the Torah portion of the week.