As we begin the Torah again once more, we can see in the dual creation ... person. First, you meet them as a member of your species; then you know them as a category of a person, before meeting ...

The Torah or Old Testament is full of “bookends.” The first ... are two creation stories and thus there are Man1,2 and Woman1,2. Genesis 1:27 says “And God created man in His image ...

The Derech Chaim, a commentary on repentance, explains that the human being has a different perspective of the world than God ...

Numerous questions arise when we delve into the biblical portion concerning Abraham in Lekh Lekha, Genesis 12:1-17:27. One such question is the apparent mistake in narrating Abraham’s story, which ...

In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham argues with God. Hearing the cities will be destroyed for the depravity of the ...

Begin reviewing the weekly Torah portion. Make this the year that you’re going to finish from beginning to end. Don’t let this week slip away and then say, “Oh, I missed it already.

How can we dance again? It’s not just a question for Simchat Torah; it’s a question for every moment we face after loss, after tragedy, after the world splits wide open.

Rabbi Yitzchak reasons that G-d began the Torah this way to address a future question: “When the nations of the world say to the Jewish people, ‘You are thieves; you conquered the land of Israel from ...

Meet Yael Kanarek. The artist behind Toratah, a gender-swapped rewrite of the Hebrew Bible, is coming to the Bay Area.

Eisenberg’s character, David, the more reserved of the pair, proposes the two leave stones on the doorstep, riffing on the Jewish tradition ... there is no Before. In the beginning was Auschwitz.” ...

Josh Stein, North Carolina’s Democratic attorney general, is projected to become the state’s first ... his image once he entered political office, and says he apologized to local Jewish ...

It is the beginning – not only of our annual Torah reading which we recommenced with Bereishis – but the beginning of our efforts to effect lasting changes. It is the beginning of an ...