Beshalach-Shabbat Shira - Weekly Torah Portion
This Shabbat is Shabbat Shira, where we read the Song on the Sea sung by Moses, Meriam, and the Israelites once they successfully crossed...


Bo - Weekly Torah Portion
A couple of weeks ago chief-justice Haiut issued a decision declining the request of the chief rabbinate of Israel for another hearing of...


Va'eira - Weekly Torah Portion
“In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Son of man, set your face...


Shemot - Weekly Torah Portion
It was with great unease that I watched the views of an incited mob breach a minimal security ring and scaling Capitol Hill into the...


VaYechi - Weekly Torah Portion
The Haftarah for the portion of VaYechi is from Kings 1 and finishes with these words, “Then David lay down with his fathers, and he was...


Vayigash - Weekly Torah Portion
The words of the prophet Ezekiel are read as the Haftarah of this week. He says, “The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, ‘Now...


MiKetz - Weekly Torah Portion
Dream and reality, so it seems, can live side-by-side. A dream may be dreamt by a person when sleeping at night. It may also be a dream...


VaYeshev - Weekly Torah Portion
The story of Hanukkah is a story of war, a struggle against a foreign occupier who attempts to control the people and make them lose...


VaYishlach - Weekly Torah Portion
Last year on Shabbat “VaYishlach” I was in Chicago joining thousands of attendees at the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ) biennial of North...


VaYetse - Weekly Torah Portion
“VaYetse”, the part of the Torah we read on this Shabbat, tells among others the famous story of Jacob’s dream. In his dream, “a ladder...

