What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

This Torah portion focuses more on mortality than any other. It is sadly an appropriate reading for this week, especially in ...

This week’s Torah portion, Parshat Chukat, marks the beginning of the end of the longest family road trip in history, as the ...

For synagogue goers these weeks, the Israelites cut a rather unfavorable impression, whining in parshah after parshah about ...

Parshat Shemini, the Torah portion following Passover, marks a pivotal moment: Moses and Aaron offer the first communal sacrifice on behalf of Israel at the Mishkan.

The weekly Torah portion of “Teruma” comes after the Torah has been given at Sinai and after the portion of “Mishpatim,” the first exposure to the legal system we will come to call Halacha ...

Our Torah portion begins with the story of Jethro [a priest of Midian], father-in-law of Moses, who, after hearing about the splitting of the Red Sea and the war against Amalek, decided to join ...

It was the Torah portion read worldwide the day before Super Bowl Sunday. And then, as if the heavens were scripting the weekend, the Philadelphia Eagles trounced the Kansas City Chiefs, 40-22.

Yiddish World Blog ties weekly Torah portion with works of Yiddish writers For last week’s portion, the blog matches the story of Jacob’s daughter Dina with a poem about her by the poet Itsik ...

This week’s Torah portion contains more mitzvahs than any other. It includes 74 of the 613 mitzvahs found in the entire Torah.

1 / 1 Torah in Verse for Torah Portion, Shoftim (In Honor of the Bar Mitzvah of Yonadav Herman) Justice, justice, you shall pursue… In trials, tribulations, whom to turn to? How can a human ...

This week’s Torah portion is about mass fear, or better put, how to stave off mass fear. Mass fear makes people, and groups of people, think, say, and do irrational and destructive things. You ...