Bamidbar on the Bar: Coming together then and now
This Shabbat we begin the reading from a new Chumash, BaMidbar, also know as the Book of Numbers. Well, it is not that new because it has...


Proposed Resolution: Ban on cooperation of the WZO and its departments with Liba Yehudit
Whereas a number of departments in the WZO held an event on Rosh Hodesh Iyyar at the Kotel plaza, in cooperation with a number of...
Parashat Shimini | The Role of Mitzvot
“Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on the fire and...


Parashat Pekudei | The Work Upon Us
The time has come, the work on the tabernacle is over, and a detail accounting of what went in is to be reported. “This is the number of...


Parashat Teruma | Tales of Hubris and Pride, Then and Now
“Tell the sons of Israel to take a contribution for Me; from everyone whose heart moves him you shall take My contribution.[1]” It is...


Parashat B'Shalach | How Leadership is a Balancing Act
Bialik and Ravnitski’s Sefer HaAgada talks about a discussion in the Babylonian Talmud. First it is rabbi Meir who argues that the tribes...


Parashat VaEra | When the Hard Work is Good Management
This week our reading from the Torah unfolds the story of some of the plagues that have been inflicted upon Egypt, among them the plague...


Parashat Shmot | Sowing the Seeds for the Fruits of our Labor
When “a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph[1]” rose to the throne it is clear that troubles are brewing in the land....


Parashat Vayechi | The Yearning for Home and Remembering Rabbi Dick Hirsch z"l
This week we are reading the last section of Genesis, בראשית, and learn about the death of Jacob. “Then he commanded them and said to...


Parashat Vayigash | In Extremes
“Now you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take...

