The Boise Jewish community prepares for a new chapter as Rabbi Johanna Hershenson takes the helm, with restored Torah scrolls ...

The Torah begins its description of lighting the lamps in the Tabernacle with the word “T’tzavveh” — “you shall command” or “you shall instruct.” That opening word echoes another familiar word: ...

This week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh, is the only Torah portion, from the beginning of Exodus through the end of Deuteronomy, from which Moses is completely absent. Everywhere else in Exodus, Numbers, ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: Don't demolish a shul until the new one is built — but if the walls are collapsing, tear it down immediately and rebuild day and night ...

And perhaps that is why Moshe’s name is absent here. The greatest leaders are not obsessed with visibility. Their egos are quiet. Their influence is steady. Moshe’s light in Tetzaveh is like the ...

George W. Bush, a US president whose intellectual ability is not the greatest quality by which he seems to have been apparently endowed, identifies ...

By seating the elders at the front of the synagogue, the entire congregation bestows honor upon the Torah and its Sages.

This story was first published by FāVS News on Feb. 23, 2026. Jewish Boiseans gathered with the broader community this weekend to celebrate the formal installation of a new rabbi and the restoration ...

Rabbi Bruce D. Forman discusses Parashat Mishpatim, which dives into case law: damages, injuries, lost property, workers’ rights, responsibility for animals, protecting the vulnerable.

This week’s Torah portion, T’rumah, represents another abrupt shift in focus within the book of Exodus from the mostly legal material of last week’s portion, Mishpatim, to the first of ...

While heavy snowfall blanketed New York and many schools closed their doors, Oholei Torah once again demonstrated a tradition that has defined the Yeshiva ...

When they teach a class or share stories about their Holocaust experience or their time helping build Israel in the 1960s and ...