Parashat Shemot: Learning God
The divine cannot be reduced to scientific explanation or empirical inquiry. God exists beyond the categories through which human beings normally understand reality.
Judaism
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Parashat Shemot: The continuity of the world
Parashat Vayechi: Keeping Israel Jewish – without coercion
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Rock that ‘kiddush’: How to throw a memorable, successful synagogue kiddush
So how do you make a kiddush that people will talk about for years to come? Here are some ideas to start your creative kiddush juices flowing like grape juice!
Beyond the beaches and medieval walls: Discovering Jewish Rhodes
From airport signs, restaurant menus on buzzing streets, and business cards in Hebrew, an Israeli visitor can almost feel at home in Rhodes.
Parashat Noah: Olive leaf from paradise
Even now, our hearts beat together with those of the heroes and freed hostages, who for two years suffered in the tunnels of darkness and the shadow of death.
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Message of Isaiah in Parashat Noah: Expanding Israel's borders a vision of redemption after exile
Just as Noah emerged from the ark to rebuild civilization, Israel emerges from centuries of dispersion to rebuild its land and infuse it with holiness.
Parashat Noah: The gift and the duty
Miracles should serve as wells of faith for the future. Before we begin our daily prayers, we recall past miracles and past redemptions.
The Women’s Parsha Slam: Giving women a voice on Simchat Torah
Perhaps my favorite part of the Parsha Slam is knowing that beyond the event itself, women who never saw themselves as Torah teachers or public speakers take the mic and share.
'Moses Maimonides': A Cornell professor’s look at the Rambam - review
Images in the book include a responsum in Maimonides’s own hand, signed “Moshe” by him. It is one of many such documents discovered in the Cairo 'geniza,' a storage of Hebrew and Aramaic documents.
Of mourning and morning: Toward a new understanding of Simchat Torah
Simchat Torah was never a festival of polarity. Happiness was never its sole emotion. Between death and creation, there is commemoration.
