This week’s Torah portion came to life for a rabbi in an entirely new way after a recent mission in Minneapolis to confront ICE.

God’s will does more than guide individual behavior. It provides direction for building societies grounded in justice and ...

This week’s Torah portion, Mishpatim, represents the first extensive listing of laws given by God to the Israelites through Moses. In many ways, it can be seen as an expansion ...

Explore the insights of Rav Shai Cherry on this week's Torah portion, Mishpatim, focusing on laws and justice in society.

Loyalty to a path means saying, “I belong. Sometimes I will fail, sometimes I will err, but I am all in.” This is completely ...

Jewish history from the Exodus until today has been about the ongoing refinement of laws which define who we really are as a people.” ...

A young woman is gingerly applying lipstick for her upcoming date, unaware of the horrible fate awaiting her. This may sound like the description of a new Netflix drama but it’s actually a scene in a ...

The story of every nation is the story of its leaders — and how they leave, writes the author of the forthcoming “The Torah of Leadership.” We often invoke the Hebrew phrase “l’dor v’dor,” from ...

Every Shabbos, Jews in synagogues of all denominations hear the cantor, rabbi or a layperson chant that week’s Torah portion from an open scroll. But Yiddish scholar Sheva Zucker says you don’t need ...

This week’s Torah portion is about mass fear, or better put, how to stave off mass fear. Mass fear makes people, and groups of people, think, say, and do irrational and destructive things. You ...

This week’s Torah portion, Va-yakhel, is the first of two Torah portions concerned with the building of the Mishkan. In next week’s portion, Pekudei, we find the actual dedication of the Mishkan. I ...