Today is the 29th day of the Omer. This week’s kavanot are all inspired by passages found in the weekly Torah portions from [...]

Uniquely Universal by Rabbi Ron Stern It’s been a long year. My favorite analogy for our experience of the year is the film Groundhog [...]

The previous week’s Torah portion describes the blasphemous worship of the golden calf. (Read it here.) The ancient interpreters saw the episode as the [...]

The description of the desert tabernacle (Mishkan) is truly a magnificent picture drawn with words. You can read it here. Countless generations of readers [...]

This week’s Torah portion is filled with gems. After Moses calls upon the Israelites to contribute skills and goods for the desert sanctuary [...]

Yesterday I wrote about how the Torah portion could be read to address the importance of upholding empathy even as we embrace our [...]

How do we deal with troubling texts from our Jewish tradition? That’s an important question posed by the second sentence of this week’s [...]

This week's Torah portion is Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23) which contains the Ten Commandments. Each day, a member of the Wise clergy will share [...]

We began this week remembering the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, who asserted that “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: [...]

Then the Eternal said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order [...]