Matot-Masei - Weekly Torah Portion
Moses is rightfully furious, “Should your brothers go to war while you remain here? And why are you discouraging the sons of Israel from...


Phinehas - Weekly Torah Portion
Last wee we happily read, “How pleasant are your tents, Jacob, / Your dwelling places, Israel! / Like valleys that stretch out, / Like...


Balak - Weekly Torah Portion
Yesterday, in the early hours of the morning, my aunt Lisa Thaler passed away. Now, from that generation of my immediate family my mother...


Chukat - Weekly Torah Portion
This week’s reading from the Torah begins with the ordinance of the red heifer. “This is the statute of the law which the Lord has...


Korah - Weekly Torah Portion
In an article full of half-truths and blatant lies, Caroline Glick made the following argument, “The negotiation between the Netanyahu...


Shlach Lecha - Weekly Torah Portion
Eventually everything seems to be hanging on a thin thread, or, in the words of the Haftarah of this week from the book of Joshua, om a...


Numbers - Weekly Torah Portion
Often enough it seems impossible for large systems to collapse or move out of a comfortable equilibrium. They have order, organization...


Emor - Weekly Torah Portion
The Haftarah for Shabbat Emor recites the words of the prophet Ezekiel, “‘the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who took...


Achrei Mot-Kedoshim - Weekly Torah Portion
Yesterday, the 22nd of April, it was Earth Day, celebrated since the seventies of the last century. In the last couple of decades, it has...


Shmini - Weekly Torah Portion
Between Passover and Shavuot (the Festival of Weeks) it is customary to study the Jewish ethics of Pirkei Avot (Aboth Tractate). It...

