Torah
The Devil You Know
For all of Torah’s miracles large and small, the story of a talking donkey who sees an angel is perhaps ...
Transforming our Curses into Blessings
In (and out of) synagogues, campuses, JCCs, summer camps and religious schools, people are developing opinions about hot-button issues. As ...
Founding Father
Correction: The report of Rabbi Lerner’s retirement was greatly exaggerated.* T&V was celebrating his contributions to the Jewish People that ...
Reb Zalman in the Andes
This piece is being published on the yahrzeit of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi of blessed memory, may his teachings endure. It begins like ...
The Three People Touched by Death
In this week’s Torah portion, Hukkat, Israel is given an interesting law. We are commanded to give a perfectly red ...
A String Around Your Finger
For all the spiritual riches of religious tradition, sometimes we forget our spiritual essence – the spark of divinity we associate with ...
Name the Problem, Not the Person
I’m a skeptic when it comes to believing that every cloud has a silver lining. Some clouds do of course, ...
Fellow Farewell: Lex Found the Torah He Was Looking For in The South
We 21st century Jews like mentioning Hillel the Elder a lot. The man is one of few individuals on the ...
The Dangers of Winning the Lottery
Every once in a while we hear a story about a lottery winner whose fate takes a drastic turn for ...
My First Aliyah L’Torah
Partnership minyans are a relatively new phenomenon in our part of northwest London, so when one started around the corner ...