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, ...

The Torah reading this Shabbat, like a significant subset of Shabbatot throughout the year, contains two different facets. The first is the reading that is next in line within the ...

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: ...

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

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

This analysis of a midrashic text is obviously not intended as a comment on or opinion about the recent United States Supreme Court decision. One of my favorite midrashim is in the Talmud in Tractate ...

In a powerful display of Jewish resilience, eight thousand Jewish teens filled Nassau Coliseum for the closing ceremony of the 18th annual CTeen International Shabbaton, showcasing stories of a ...

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 ...

To think that God descended to Sinai to give us a history lesson or dictate laws is to minimize Torah and to miss the real meaning of it. Last week, Jews around the world stayed up all night learning ...

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 ...

Shavuot is the festival when Jews eat cheesecake and celebrate “matan Torah,” literally, “the giving of the Torah” at Mount Sinai. It conjures up images of the tablets being handed to Moses in the ...