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Next week’s Torah reading begins at the beginning of the beginning, with the first chapter of Genesis—469 words in the original Hebrew, 597 in the JPS translation—describing the creation of the world in a way that has fundamentally…

On the holiday of Sukkot, we are commanded to take the Four Species – the lulav (palm branch), etrog (citron), hadassim (myrtles), and aravot (willows) – and to wave them together in all six directions. While this commandment might appear…

A dramatic narrative in the theatrical scene of the crucifixion of Jesus

The anonymous authors of the New Testament Gospels did not have the privilege of personally knowing Jesus, nor did they have access to precise data about his life….

It takes more than a plane to reach the edge of silence. To arrive at Wilderness Pro Lodge, tucked deep within Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park, first you board an eight-seater bush plane into the village of Port Alsworth. From there, a…

What have we learned in these two years? In the aftermath of October 7, 2023, the world blinked—shocked, sympathetic, and solemn—and turned its gaze toward Israel. The world needs to take a closer look at itself and visit an optometrist…

Anyone who studies the Hebrew Scriptures from a Rabbinic Bible is struck by the number of different commentaries that surround the few lines of the Biblical text on each page. Most religions that have a sacred scripture have editions that…

Two years. Two years since we woke up to a different era. Two years since our brothers and sisters were massacred, raped, tortured, captured, kidnapped. Two years since the illusion of safety crumbled. Two years of hell. 

And the initial…