Rabbi/Cantor Diane Offenberg-Rose is a Jewish Universalist Rabbi serving the Los Angeles region. She was a music teacher and conductor before becoming a Cantor and then a Rabbi, with a Bachelor’s in ...

In an episode of the original Star Trek television series, there is a transporter mishap, that splits Captain Kirk into two beings (“The Enemy Within, Season 1, Episode 5). One version of Kirk is ...

This Shabbat, we will read parashat “Vayikra,” the first portion of the third book of the Torah – Leviticus. This portion, which commands the bringing of sacrifices, begins with the verse: “When a ...

This coming Shabbat, we will read Parashat Vayikra in the synagogue, in which the Torah commands us to bring sacrifices as atonement for our sins. Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto explained in his weekly lecture ...