One of the more creative takes I’ve seen on the weekly Torah portion is G-dcast, an animated Webcast that invites a different writer each week to offer their own 4-minute narration of that week’s ...

On Simchat Torah, we enliven our senses.After spending a week joyously immersed in Creation while sitting in a sukkah, we now take the Torah, the closest physical manifestation of the Holy One, and ...

(The Conversation) — The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures and teachings – to the Israelites at Mount ...

“Fear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.” No, it’s not a typo. The Shema, which starts “Hear O Israel,” is the central credo of the Jewish people. It states that there is only one God — ...

The Torah is emphatic: Pesach is Hag Ha’Aviv, a holiday that must fall in the spring, after the vernal equinox, and here we are in the cold January snow and ice of the exile reading the Torah’s ...

This week’s Torah portion, Shemot, begins with a list of those who made their way down to Egypt from Canaan. While the Torah goes into detail about their dramatic stories back home, we know very ...

That awkward moment when the undiluted Word of God gets in the way of your agenda. On Nov. 13, dozens of Jewish leaders from “Rabbis for Ceasefire” gathered near the U.S. Capitol in Washington to pray ...

This week’s Torah portion is Beshallach – Exodus 13:17 – 17:16 When my synagogue’s sanctuary was renovated, we completed the building just under the wire, with finishing touches between Rosh Hashanah ...

A JTA essay on “fictionalism” describes a worldview incapable of surviving more than a few generations, writes Rabbi Warren Goldstein. “It’s just what we Jews do,” Hershovitz explains. “[I]t keeps me ...

Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies, College of the Holy Cross The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures ...