This week’s Torah portion describes the special garments the priests were to wear when offering sacrifices on behalf of the children of Israel. [...]

In his attempt to define the threshold test for obscenity, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously remarked, “I know it when I see [...]

Ten years ago this Shabbat, our oldest daughter Isa (who just graduated college!) celebrated becoming bat mitzvah in Jerusalem. It feels like forever [...]

Crossing Over Together Almost a week has passed since we first heard about a synagogue under attack in Colleyville, Texas. Sadly, we certainly [...]

Teach Like God For ten summers I studied at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem (SHI). I gathered with rabbis from around North [...]

Every week my daughter welcomes Shabbat with a group of survivors as part of her participation on the Holocaust Museum LA’s teen advisory [...]

“Say, therefore, to the Israelite people: I am the ETERNAL. I will save you from the labors of the Egyptians and free you from their bondage. I [...]

This Shabbat we begin our reading of the Book of Exodus. We move from the family sagas of Genesis to a story of [...]