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The core moment of Parshat Shlach begins when Moses sends scouts to see the Promised Land. Perhaps he sends them because God commands it. Perhaps he...
Some have suggested that the Israel Day Parade should be transformed into a broader celebration of Jewish diversity, one in which Israel is merely one...
Let me begin with a teaching from a few years ago by one of my teachers, Arnold Eisen, former Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Eisen is...
In the days since publishing my The Times of Israel essay, “6 JTS seniors oppose President Herzog speaking at graduation. It’s 6 too many,” I...
I am a child of the Jewish Theological Seminary. List College, class of 1997. The Davidson School, 2002. The Rabbinical School, 2002. My father walked...
Parashat Emor is a tapestry of distinct themes. We spend time with the laws of priestly purity, with the sacred rhythm of the calendar, with the...
I am still sitting with the strangeness of it. I stood as keynote speaker at a Yom HaShoah VeHaGevurah commemoration on Long Island, the place of my...
I was privileged to see “Giant” on Broadway tonight with many friends from the UJA-Federation of New York community. We walked in expecting a...
Yesterday we gathered in learning and in testimony for Yom HaShoah veHagevruah, the Day of Holocaust and Heroism. But that day does not stand alone....
The Haggadah is the most rewritten text in Jewish life, not because the story changes, but because we do. Every year, we arrive with new questions,...
Leviticus, Sefer Vayikra, is a text many modern readers struggle to enter. It is dense, detailed, and, most viscerally, filled with blood. Animal...
What was the Mishkan? Earlier in Exodus we hear the command: “Make for Me a mikdash, a holy place, and I will dwell (“veshachanti”) among them....
Ki Tissa sits like an island inside the Tabernacle narrative that defines the end of the Book of Exodus. Before it, Torah teaches the building of the...
On this coming Shabbat we arrive at one of the most morally charged moments in our liturgical year: Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat of Remembering. The...
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