One of the earliest post-Holocaust stories, “ Yossl Rakover Speaks to God ” by Zvi Kolitz, is a visceral and raw account of the ramblings...

וְהָיָה, כִּי יְבִיאֲךָ ה אֱלֹקיךָ, אֶל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר-אַתָּה בָא-שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ--וְנָתַתָּה אֶת-הַבְּרָכָה עַל-הַר גְּרִזִים,...

It seems an odd way to conclude the book of Bamidbar. The Parsha covers laws about oaths and vows, the request of the tribes of Reuven,...

Today we live in a world riddled by conflict on the global, national and communal level. The most pressing question for contemporary...

The philosopher Theodor Adorno speaks about the notion of silence as an absolute expression of permanence. The silence that followed the...

Everywhere you go in Israel, you will see the sign "יחד ננצח" - together we will win. Many speak about the imperative to unite and speak...

For several years before October 7th, we had fallen out of love with our people and our land. As the Israeli singer Hanan Ben Ari implied...

Bnei Yisrael are ready to enter the land. The men have been counted for battle. The tribes are encamped around the Tabernacle. The...

There are many today who frame our current reality as either/or. Either the hostages OR the War. Either we save those suffering...

What is religion? We tend to think of being religious as having belief in and being dependent on God, but I would argue that much like...

The parshiot of Behar-Bechukotai are often read together, but as this year is a leap year they are read separately. However, there is a...

Many people have been pondering the connection between the woke movement in America and fundamentalist Islam. How have they made such...

In this video blog on Pesach, in light of the last week, I explore the idea of our relationship to miracles - both in the Bible and today...

Sefer Vayikra provides answers to difficult theological questions. How do you come close to a transcendent being? In what way can we...

Since the start of the war, Galatz (the army radio station) end their morning broadcast by naming one of the hostages and inviting a...

AT the start of the war one day I came home to find that my 7 year old had found a box and spent hours decorating it, writing a message...

בזכות נשים צדקניות ישראל נגאלו ישראל ממצרים Yes, in the righteous women’s merit we were redeemed. They are the women of faith, not...

When I went to visit the shiva of Amichai Oster ז"ל, the beloved son of Marcy Oster, one of my long term students, his fellow army unit...

Stephen Fry, one of Britain’s most beloved actors who had never been particularly vocal about his Jewish identity, spoke out against...

A father and a son. Two narratives. Two cases of complex identity development. One parallel narrative of liminal space. One occurs in...