The first words of this week’s parasha “Give ear, O heavens, let me speak; Let the earth hear the words I […]
Time to Listen | Parashat Haazinu
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Coming Out of Egypt, Today
For Passover 2025 / 5785 – By Elliot Vaisrub Glassenberg – I grew up learning that the entire Passover seder can be summarized in one sentence: “In every generation each person must see themselves as if they themselves came out of Egypt”. I was taught that the purpose of the seder is to cultivate within us a mindset of continued mindful awareness, appreciation and gratitude of our freedom, so that we don’t take it for granted, lest we become complacent or apathetic. […]
Zelophehad’s Daughters: The 2019 Version | Parashat Pinchas
Zelophehad’s Daughters: The 2019 Version | Parashat Pinchas By Yuval Linden Parashat Pinchas describes the incredible story of the daughters […]
Man Does Not Live by BBQ Alone – Parashat Emor
We can understand a very meaningful message about our Jewish calendar – it is a calendar that stands in opposition to star-worship and idolatry, a calendar in which human beings take a central place in the design and determination of it. […]
What’s social justice got to do with it? | Parashat Behar
This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Behar, opens with the topic of Shmita – the sabbatical year. To the modern reader, this might seem like one of the most irrelevant commandments in the Bible. But within it lies some of the most deep and powerful conceptions of social justice, more relevant than ever today. […]
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. […]
From Past to Future – They Say There's Still Hope
On Passover, we are called upon to create connections between our personal story and the communal so that they may be meaningful for us and our children. Most importantly, we must consider what echoes of slavery and freedom are present in our midst. […]
From Fear to Solidarity | Parashat Ki Tavo
As the dust of the election slowly settles, the hateful words thrown around in the heat of the moment are […]
Purity Laws and the Elections – Parashat Tazria
But hidden within the idea of purity and impurity we find an important message about the nature of people and the meaning of their actions. Unlike the list of appetizing animals from the previous Parsha, humans are not wholly impure or wholly pure – they are both. […]
Podcast: Which Secular Jews "rebuild" the Seder
Nir Braudo and Shmuel Rosner discuss the ways in which secular Jews can “re-build” the Passover Seder in the Jewish […]
