“And from the day on which you bring the Omer offering—the day after the sabbath — you shall count off seven complete weeks” (Vayikra 23:15). When my wife was a teacher at a non-Jewish charter school ...

“See, the Lord your God has placed the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you. Fear not and do not be dismayed” (Devarim 1,21). As we open up the ...

The ninth plague - darkness - comes shrouded in a darkness of its own. What is this plague doing here? It seems out of sequence. Thus far there have been eight plagues, and they have become steadily, ...

What do Taanit Esther and Purim have to do with the Golden Calf, Shofar, Para Aduma, Kohein Gadol... and a kid with a box of crayons? It is no accident that Purim precedes Pesach by exactly one month, ...

From the Texas hostage taking to the Israeli conversion reform, the 10 commandments are as relevant today as the day they were given [soundcloud url=”https://api ...