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I am still sitting with the strangeness of it. I stood as keynote speaker at a Yom HaShoah VeHaGevurah commemoration on Long Island, the place of my...
I was privileged to see “Giant” on Broadway tonight with many friends from the UJA-Federation of New York community. We walked in expecting a...
Yesterday we gathered in learning and in testimony for Yom HaShoah veHagevruah, the Day of Holocaust and Heroism. But that day does not stand alone....
The Haggadah is the most rewritten text in Jewish life, not because the story changes, but because we do. Every year, we arrive with new questions,...
Leviticus, Sefer Vayikra, is a text many modern readers struggle to enter. It is dense, detailed, and, most viscerally, filled with blood. Animal...
What was the Mishkan? Earlier in Exodus we hear the command: “Make for Me a mikdash, a holy place, and I will dwell (“veshachanti”) among them....
Ki Tissa sits like an island inside the Tabernacle narrative that defines the end of the Book of Exodus. Before it, Torah teaches the building of the...
On this coming Shabbat we arrive at one of the most morally charged moments in our liturgical year: Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat of Remembering. The...