Even atheists can enjoy these secular Yiddish poems and their English translations, related to the Torah reading.

Explore the insights of D'var Torah this week with Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, focusing on the Torah portion Ha'azinu.

Shemini Atzeret, both a biblically mandated festival and the Yartzeit of hundreds of Jews murdered two years ago, is now and ...

Ha’azinu calls us to remember history and understand generational change - for Jews, to strengthen our mesorah; for nations, ...

In Israel, Sukkot often means sitting outside in the evening, which can be pleasant (mosquitoes aside). But lunchtime can ...

Between heaven and Earth lies a sheltering presence, a glimpse of eternity, and the promise of unity beneath the wings of the ...

Rabbi Lance J. Sussman This week’s Torah portion is Korach: Numbers 16:1 - 18:32 In 1982, my father, Charles Sussman, retired. He was only 57 years... Rabbi Daniel Braune-Friedman This week’s Torah ...

Some of the headstones in the historic Union Cemetery date back to the 1920s. Chari Pere is an award-winning Orthodox Jewish ...

The brilliance of the Torah as “Literary Philosophic-Psychology” is evident in this week’s Torah portion, “Be’ha’alotekha.” We see here an interplay of chaos in the inner life, anxiety and fear, that ...

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Based on the pattern expressed earlier of connecting the ending and beginning of the Torah, we notice that the last letter of ...