The images of young men starved and tortured in propaganda videos released by their evil Hamas captors seared the conscience of our people. As the cycle of Torah readings begins anew with Parshat ...

Named one of the 500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles in 2016 and again in 2017, Most Influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek and one of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the World by The ...

Only a couple of weeks ago, we were all feeling the holiness of Yom Kippur. By the end of the day of fasting, beautiful music, insightful teachings and prayers that deepened our self-awareness, we ...

Chapter five of Bereshit closes the parsha with a list of the ten generations from Adam to Noah, where chapter eleven similarly closes Noah with a list of ten generations from Shem (Noah’s son) to ...

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This week we are starting the Torah all over again with Parashat Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8), and I’m taking advantage of the new Jewish year to restart my Torah Talk column. You know, of course, that ...

God creates the world. He creates Adam and Eve. He places them in the Garden of Eden. He commands Adam not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Thanks to the incitement of the serpent ...

Heaven and earth have been completed. G-d has completed his creation and ceases his mastery on the seventh day - the Sabath. He then blesses the seventh day and brings sanctity, kedusha. The reason - ...

Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution In her penetrating debut, physician Lee uses the Japanese art of kintsugi, the practice of mending broken pottery with gold lacquer, ...