This Shabbat we begin the reading of Exodus, the second book of the Hebrew Bible.  “The Book of Exodus, much like the Book of Genesis, opens in pervasive darkness. Genesis describes the earth as ‘unformed [...]

This Shabbat we begin the reading of Exodus, the second book of the Hebrew Bible.  “The Exodus story isn’t a story of universal liberation. The Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt saves only the Israelites. [...]

This Shabbat we begin the reading of Exodus, the second book of the Hebrew Bible. Rabbi Carole Balin, a professor at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, asks a fundamental question [...]

This Shabbat we begin the reading of Exodus, the second book of the Hebrew Bible.  “Exodus is arguably the most important book in the Bible since it presents the seminal events in Israel’s history and [...]

A Thanksgiving Prayer of Gratitude by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback  When something wonderful happens to us, it’s easy to be filled with a sense of gratitude. Believers and non-believers alike find themselves saying “thank you” to [...]

At the beginning of the pandemic, I wrote about some of the silver linings of this challenging time: more time at home, less rushing from place to place, less time in our cars, and a [...]

There is a tradition of learning a little bit of Talmud each day as a way of ensuring that every word of this extraordinary collection of Rabbinic wisdom is studied. If you read a page [...]

There have been so many terrible losses during this pandemic. Most awfully, more than 238,000 Americans have died and more than 1.2 million world-wide. Businesses have closed and hundreds of millions of people are suffering [...]

Over the past week, new COVID-19 cases in America have averaged more than 100,000 per day. This represents an increase of 59% from just two weeks earlier. Scientists and doctors warn that with the onset [...]