This week's parsha has a pivotal moment for the Israelites in the desert - the episode of the spies. As they approach the land that is...

Facebook soemtimes feeds me clips from Modern Family and one of the clips I recently saw felt appropos of this parsha. The character Lily...

Last night we ended the holiday of Shavuot, a holiday that celebrates the revelation at Mount Sinai when God gives the Torah to the...

Last week our youngest son participated in his school's Renaissance Faire, where each student researched an important figure from the...

Yesterday was a beautiful spring day in NY. As I considered what to wear to shul, I looked through my closet, scrolling through the...

Bamidbar finds our ancestors still Bamidbar Sinai, in the wilderness/desert of Sinai. Throughout the 5 books of the Torah, we really do...

Parsha B'chukotai is so often combined with Behar, from this past week. In part, it's because they are both quite short (as our rabbi...

For those of us who are not farmers, it can be tempting to gloss over the many verses in this parsha that relate to how we use the land...

Yesterday at a beautiful ceremony to dedicate a memorial of ceramic kalaniot flowers representing those killed on October 7th, I had the...

This week's parsha has Moshe tell the kohanim a lot of rules about them and their status. They shouldn't be around dead bodies, even...

I live my life by lists. I have lists for food shopping, and daily to-do's, and longer term to-do's, and morning routines, etc. When...

This parsha is going to tell a lot of rules about the Kohenim and the Yom Kippur ritual, but to lead into those instructions the parsha...

There is a special Torah reading we do each day of Pesach, including the Shabbat of Chol HaMoed. It interrupts our "regularly scheduled...

It’s not surprising that a lot of people spend a lot of time thinking about food during Passover. When our tradition asks us to get rid...

This Friday dinner can be tricky. I know a number of people will have already turned over the kitchen for Passover in order to get...

One creative way our trip chairs got participants involved was offering opportunities to share information with the group. For example,...

Over the course of our trip in Alabama we met with several women who spoke about their experiences growing up in Alabama, with...

Over the course of this trip I have been re-examining. There are things I knew. But as it turns out, I didn't really know. I, like most...

I have come to Alabama along with over 30 members of our synagogue on what was titled a Civil Rights Journey. What I realized from the...

This week’s parsha starts out with instructions regarding how long a new mother is considered tamei (impure) after giving birth and the...