December 13, 2025 -
December 13, 2025 -
Contradictions When I was Orthodox, contradictions in the Torah used to perturb me. If God really dictated the Torah to Moses, couldn’t the text be a bit clearer? If theRead More »
How Do We Sustain Our Jewish Identity? As we approach Purim, the story of Esther gnaws at me and disturbs my peace of mind. When I was in Yeshivah, IRead More »
Is This God’s Will? At the foot of Mount Sinai, the Jewish People, only recently freed from slavery, meet their Creator, face to face. The mountain is engulfed in flames andRead More »
Arguably One of the Worst Ideas in Human History The Ten Commandments brings to mind many disparate things: Charlton Heston, Mel Brooks, tablets over an Ark, and the founding lawsRead More »
Sweet Harmony I love attending concerts, and my favorite part of a concert is when all the attendees start singing together. When a hundred, a thousand or fifty thousand peopleRead More »
Have Doubts About God? Our Parsha begins with Moses in a state of high anxiety and crisis of faith. Since his audience with Pharaoh, the situation of the Jewish slavesRead More »
Making Our Blessings Count On Shabbat evening, after the graceful candles are lit and the family is gathered around the table, it’s customary for parents to bless their children. ThisRead More »
Drive a Mercedes Benz? My Jewish summer camp experiences always coincided with Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. While recounting the destruction of the Temple in JerusalemRead More »
Repeating Our Parents’ Behavior Sometimes, we repeat our parents’ behaviors without even realizing it. In our parsha, sons repeat their father’s behavior when Judah and his brethren are informed thatRead More »
The Word of the Year 2018 has been a tough year: school and synagogue shootings, massive wildfires and hurricanes, more #metoo issues, and turmoil in the Oval Office and withRead More »
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