This Shabbat has special personal resonance for me. Parashat Sh’lach L’cha is the parasha of my bar mitzvah — just a few years back, a little more than four decades ago. Embedded in this portion is [...]

June is Pride Month — named for the Stonewall Uprising of June 1969, when a movement for full inclusion and equal rights for all people regardless of their sexuality or gender identity changed the [...]

This Shabbat is Shavuot, the holiday that celebrates the giving of Torah at Sinai. And as is the custom on Shavuot, we read the Book of Ruth.I have been thinking about something my Bible teacher [...]

This Shabbat we begin a new book of the Torah. B’midbar (Numbers) opens with a census. God instructs Moses: שְׂאוּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ כָּל־עֲדַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵלs’u et rosh kol adat b’nei Yisrael— raise up the head of each [...]