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Challenge Your Father and Mother | Parshat Va'etchanan
Ayala Dekel, educator and facilitator at the BINA Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv, explores parashat Va'etchanan and the meaning of this famous commandment. […]
After War Song | Parashat Matot-Masei
Ayala Dekel, BINA educator and facilitator, discusses Parashat Matot-Masei fourteen years after the Second Lebanon War.
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To Learn From Tzelophechad’s Daughters | Parashat Pinchas
Dear friends, those who love Miriam and cherish her memory – once again, we reach the parasha marking Miriam’s death. We gather here to remember Miriam’s life and to mourn her death in “Kadesh”, somewhere near the streets of Petra. I would like to share the following words: […]
Eulogy for Miriam | Parashat Chukat
Dear friends, those who love Miriam and cherish her memory – once again, we reach the parasha marking Miriam’s death. We gather here to remember Miriam’s life and to mourn her death in “Kadesh”, somewhere near the streets of Petra. I would like to share the following words: […]
How to Manage a Healthy Dispute and Stop an Epidemic | Parashat Korach
What makes one dispute a 'heavenly dispute' and another a 'non-heavenly dispute'? Nir Braudo, BINA's Deputy Director, discusses parashat Korach and the commentaries' answer to how to manage a healthy disagreement. […]
Illuminating the Margins | Parashat BeHa'alotcha
lluminated Margins – BINA executive director Eran Baruch, shares his thoughts on parashat BeHa'alotcha and current events. […]
Parashat Behar-Bechukotai | There will be good, there will be bad
How do we motivate people? Carrot or stick? Instil fear or inspire? Yuval Linden, director of BINA Gap Year programs, discusses this week's parasha, Behar-Bechukotai, and leadership during complicated times […]
The Priest’s Daughter | Parashat Emor
Who is pure, and who is impure? Who gets to dwell inside the camp, and who must stay away? Yael Hirsch-Biderman, BINA's Director of HR, in this week's double-parsha, leads us through questions about ritual purity in the age of COVID-19, what it means to be cast out of the camp – and the cost in returing to our routines. […]
Who’s Inside and Who’s Outside | Parashat Tazria – Metzora
Who is pure, and who is impure? Who gets to dwell inside the camp, and who must stay away? Yael Hirsch-Biderman, BINA's Director of HR, in this week's double-parsha, leads us through questions about ritual purity in the age of COVID-19, what it means to be cast out of the camp – and the cost in returing to our routines. […]
Alien Fire | Parashat Shemini
What happens when our leaders don't play by the rules? In this week's Torah portion, Shemini, BINA CEO Eran Baruch tells about dire consequences when leaders fail to act in exemplary fashion, and how, as we battle a global pandemic, we need our leaders to act with discipline and restraint, now more than ever. […]
Fire on Our Face | Parshat Tzav
Passover in the time of Coronavirus reminds us the importance of personal and collective responsibility. In this week's Parashat Hashavua, Maayan Arzi-Melinarski reminds us of the inherent tension between the priests and the prophets, teaching us that, in these strange days, our task to build a just society takes precedence over ceremony and ritual. […]
Why Should We Care? | Parshat Vayikra
What do the laws of ritual sacrifice outlined in the Torah have to teach us about being quarantined? In this week's Parashat Hashavua, Avraham Eisen reflects on equality before the law, equality before pandemics, and what the values behind ancient practices that still have lessons for us today. […]
Unite or Die | Parshat Vayakhel – Pekudei
This week’s Parsha is made up of two separate and consecutive Torah portions – Vayakhel and Pekudei. It’s ironic that Parshat Vayakhel (‘he convened’) comes at a time when all public meetings have been forbidden in an attempt to halt the spread of the coronavirus. […]
What Leads Your Shopping Cart? | Parashat Ki Tisa
What kind of grocery shopper are you? Do you flip over the box and check out the nutritional information and indgredients, or just toss it in the cart? This week's Parasha, Ki Tisa, makes it clear that we should be reading the box carefully. Yael Dinur on Judaism, food, and how it got to our dinner tables. […]
What do Super Tuesday and Shabbat Zachor have in common?
On the Shabbat before Purim, it is customary to add a reading to the weekly Parsha that is called, “Parshat Zachor.” The reason behind this tradition is hidden in a verse from the added parsha, “Remember what Amalek did to you.” This verse, now linked to Purim, is an echo that reminds us of how the Amalek lineage eventually begets the evil Haman. […]
Yom Ki(Purim)
It is easy to understand why Purim might be someone's favorite Jewish holiday. There are costumes, noisemakers, jam-filled triangle cookies, and even a theological justification for drinking without inhibition! In a Jewish holiday calendar so often filled with solemnity and grief, Purim stands out a holiday unlike any other. […]
A Jewish LEAP Year: The New B’nai Mitzvah
Will you indulge us for a moment? Can we take a minute to point out a few challenges in how we launch our children on their Jewish journeys? Don’t worry – we won’t just kvetch; we also have a pretty good solution for how to address these challenges. […]
We are all (no longer) slaves | Parashat Beshalach
Avraham Eisen explores the relevance of this lesson for our current complicated political reality […]
For if you destroy it, there is no one to restore it after you | Tu BiShvat
Tu b’Shvat, the new year for the trees, a Jewish celebration of nature and all that it does for us. […]
To Exploit and Be Exploited. To Apologize. To Survive | Parashat Bo
How does the end of Egyptian slavery compare with the end of the Holocaust? […]