Mikets- weekly Torah portion
Dreaming dreams is good, being able to decipher them is an excellent trait, but greatness comes with the ability of doing something with...


Vayishlach - weekly Torah portion
We feel that something odd is happening when we read this week’s portion of the Torah. We first read about Jacob “was left alone, and a...


Vayetse - weekly Torah portion
Jacob was assigned with a task and he sets himself to the voyage towards Paddan-aram to find a wife for himself. The evening falls and he...


Toldot - weekly Torah portion
Two beginnings, Esau and Jacob. Two opportunities that when met brought about a profound change. A change that happened at a very...


Chaye Sarah - weekly Torah portion
After the death of Sarah, Abraham seeks a burial place for her, “and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, ‘I am a stranger and a sojourner...


Vayera - weekly Torah portion
Abraham “was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day” probably busy doing some thing or another, and not paying particular...


L’ech Lecha - weekly Torah portion
The words of L’chi Lach and you shall be a blessing are associated for many of us with the first lady of Reform music our beloved late...


Noach - weekly Torah portion
“Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land...


Bereshit (Genesis) - weekly Torah portion
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep,...


Yom Kippur
There are many reasons for us to reflect on the Kol Nidrei prayer. To what it says, and maybe also to what it does not say. Jew haters of...

