Torah
Mensch Madness Game 3: Caro vs. Luria
What an exciting match-up we have today: Joseph Caro versus Isaac Luria. Two titans of Torah commentary, taking it to ...
The Project of Leadership
Most people find this section (the final chapters of Exodus and first few chapters of Leviticus) of the Torah pretty ...
Seeing Bigger
Travel in your mind to the top of our atmosphere, where Earth’s envelope of life-giving oxygen and nitrogen blends into the cold vacuum of ...
“That I May Dwell Among Them…”
In this week’s Torah portion (Parshat Terumah, Exodus 25:1-27:19), God instructs Moses how Israel should make the sanctuary. He tells Moses, “וְעָשׂוּ ...
From Facebook Likes to Real-World Love
Their love was evident to everyone who was there on that beautiful day in October when Yechochanan and Aminah Perkins ...
Loving and Hating Valentines Day
Now that the Superbowl is over, we can be sure that our media streams will be flooded with chocolate, diamonds ...
Exceeded Expectations
There is a famous story in the Talmud that describes several rabbis arguing about whether a fellow’s oven is fit ...
From Sigh to Song: A Way Toward Freedom
Jews are a People of the Book; Jews also are a People of the Song. In fear, poverty, war and exile, song packed light and ...
Eizehu Gibor: Jessica Jones – who is a hero?
(Yes, spoilers. Get over it)In Emily Nussbaum’s superb New Yorker essay about the television series “Marvel’s Jessica Jones,” she asks, ...
Ta-Nehisi Coates and King Solomon, Telling it Like It Is
“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this ...