This week’s Torah portion, Va-yakhel, is the first of two Torah portions concerned with the building of the Mishkan. In next week’s portion, Pekudei, we find the actual dedication of the Mishkan. I ...

Preface 25 Feb 22 – for the commentary on the Torah portion, see below: With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are again faced with core problems and questions of the human condition. We are faced ...

I’ve become obsessed with podcasts. Here are my 15 favorite Jewish ones — from Israel-focused news to Torah to community.

In fact, you wouldn’t even have to leave your home. G-dcast, created by Jewish educational entrepreneur Sarah Lefton and writer Matthue Roth, brings commentary on the weekly Torah portion by Jewish ...

Social justice is more than a footnote in the Torah. It's a central theme, Little Rock Rabbi Barry Block maintains. The Holiness Code in Leviticus requires more than sacrifices and Sabbath observance; ...

Whether on parchment or paper, the Torah continues to be the most intriguing and enchanting book (or scroll) ever composed, revered in the Bronze Age and Atomic Age alike. It surely is the only book ...

Seeing Torah, The quilt exhibition by Anita Rabinoff-Goldman is a stunning artistic interpretation of a verse from each of the Torah’s 54 portions done with fabric. The small quilts are a visual ...

Rabbi Bruce D. Forman discusses Parashat Mishpatim, which dives into case law: damages, injuries, lost property, workers’ rights, responsibility for animals, protecting the vulnerable.

BEACHWOOD, Ohio — For thousands of years, interpreting Jewish Scripture and tradition was almost exclusively the province of men. Men wrote commentaries on the Five Books of Moses, men preached on the ...