Daily Kavanah – Monday, May 12, 2025
This week, Jews throughout the world read from parashat Emor. One of the few weekly Torah readings from the Book of Leviticus [...]
This week, Jews throughout the world read from parashat Emor. One of the few weekly Torah readings from the Book of Leviticus [...]
Each year, countless Jewish communities around the globe, including ours, read the Natan Alterman poem Magash HaKesef (The Silver Platter), as part of their Yom [...]
My favorite line from the Passover story is one that is met with little fanfare. We cannot find it in the Haggadah and it [...]
This week’s parashah, Vayikra, the first in the Book of Leviticus, introduces our forebears’ manual for creating and sustaining holiness among the Israelites, beginning [...]
This week’s parashah, Vayikra, the first in the Book of Leviticus, introduces our forebears’ manual for creating and sustaining holiness among the Israelites, [...]
This week’s parashah, Vayikra, the first in the Book of Leviticus, introduces our forebears’ manual for creating and sustaining holiness among the Israelites, beginning [...]
This week’s parashah, Vayikra, the first in the Book of Leviticus, introduces our forebears’ manual for creating and sustaining holiness among the Israelites—beginning with [...]
Today is National Oreo Day, a whimsical festival established to appreciate the cultural significance of America’s most popular cookie. For Jews, however, the [...]
The festival of Purim articulates how navigating the tension between being a part of and apart from the society in which we [...]
Today is National Hug-a-GI day, started in 1996 by Adrienne Koopersmith to appreciate active duty members of the Armed Services.* As we [...]