Torah

1 in 6 contemporary Jews are new to Judaism. How are we supposed to welcome these converts? Rabbi Juan Mejia, a ...

This time of year, we read a very infamous Torah portion: Parashat Tazria-Metzora, a double Torah portion, which is widely ...

You have shared some of your intimate emotional struggles with a colleague and close friend. Very soon afterward you lose ...

It was my first Shabbat at a new camp – Camp Interlaken JCC – and I was still feeling out ...

One of the most oft-repeated themes of the Torah is that we must remember that we were slaves and strangers ...

April 3, 2015, is Tzom Bechorot, Fast of the Firstborn when first-born Jews fast before the first seder of Passover. This day also ...

There are two funny images I like to circulate this time every year as we approach the Passover holiday. The ...

I am very active personally and professionally in the New Orleans Jewish community. Recently, I began teaching a beginner adult ...

I cannot remember the last time I switched on the news—be it on the television or the radio—or glanced at a newspaper headline ...

Today was about Torah and today was about midrash.I have been teaching our 3rd graders about the Torah readings we’ve ...