The Torah teaches us to revere our mother and father (Lev. 19:3). This mitzvah is embedded within the Holiness Code. In observing it, we achieve holiness, as well as the wholeness of learning from the ...

Social justice is more than a footnote in the Torah. It's a central theme, Little Rock Rabbi Barry Block maintains. The Holiness Code in Leviticus requires more than sacrifices and Sabbath observance; ...

To What Extent Are People Facing Mental Health Struggles or Addictions Responsible for Their Torah Obligations? What Message Does Kislev Teach Us in Our Personal Lives?

My, my, my, how presumptuous, explaining Torah in a mere 600 words. Man has spent millennia discussing this sacred tome, the Jewish Bible. And now, this simple scribe, with a quick click of his search ...

How many people know that when the Torah describes Abraham mourning the death of Sarah, it’s the only time in the entire text that a man mourns a woman? Or that Adam and Eve were equal partners in ...

When it came time to choose the text on which she would be sworn into the U.S. Senate, Elissa Slotkin turned to a relatively recent book that reflects her own identity as a Jewish woman. Slotkin, a ...

Eli found a 100 year old Torah commentary in our home library that had belonged to the grandfather of my husband, Ron. He opened the book and (accompanied by his bunny) perused the pages. Eli’s not so ...

Simchat Torah, which marks the end of the annual cycle of weekly Torah readings and the beginning of the new cycle, is a joyous holiday that celebrates the Jewish love of Torah and study. Marking the ...

Every Jewish male is commanded to write a Torah scroll for himself. Today the practice is to fulfill the commandment of ...

For the better part of a century, Judaism's Conservative branch worshiped with the same Torah commentary, a volume written by a rabbi born and educated in the 1800s. But the Conservative outlook has ...

A scarce early Hebrew publication I acquired recently was written and published despite extraordinary difficulties and hardships that the author, and came about as a result of his herculean efforts.

Social justice is more than a footnote in the Torah. It's a central theme, Little Rock Rabbi Barry Block maintains. The Holiness Code in Leviticus requires more than sacrifices and Sabbath observance; ...