Conditioning Our Hearts
Jan 20, 2007 By Shuly Rubin Schwartz | Commentary | Va'era
In this week’s parashah, as our narrative draws ever closer to the climactic Exodus from Egypt, we feel the drama building.
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A Question of Translation
Dec 30, 2006 By Robert Harris | Commentary | Vayiggash
Parashat Vayiggash (or, as it is sometimes known in Hebrew school circles, “parashat omigosh”) serves as the denouement of the “Tale of Joseph and His Brothers.”
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Wrestling Over Sacred Issues
Dec 9, 2006 By Matthew Berkowitz | Commentary | Vayishlah
Appropriately enough, this week’s Torah reading is Parashat Vayishlah.
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Doing the Impossible
Dec 2, 2006 By David Hoffman | Commentary | Vayetzei
This parashah challenges us to do the impossible. Let me explain.
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The Challenges and Joys of Parenting
Nov 25, 2006 By Steven Brown | Commentary | Toledot
Parshat Toledot is the epitome of the challenges, struggles, ambivalences, and joys of parenting.
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Dawkins and a Deeper Level of Faith
Nov 18, 2006 By Marc Wolf | Commentary | Hayyei Sarah
In his introduction, Richard Dawkins articulates his goal in writing The God Delusion: “If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down” (5).
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Examining the Word Moriah
Nov 11, 2006 By Robert Harris | Commentary | Vayera
Years ago, in a national television program called Laugh In (yes, I lived during the Stone Age — the Rolling Stone Age. Never mind.), a comedian lampooned the song “They Called the Wind Moriah” from the Broadway show Paint Your Wagon.
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Appreciating Our Blessings
Nov 3, 2006 By David Hoffman | Commentary | Lekh Lekha
Imagine the following request: leave your home, your family, everything that you know and cherish and go — completely walk away from the world of your ancestors.
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