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Parashat Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23) By Rabbi Micha'el Rosenberg I write these words on a Saturday...

Parashat Beshallah (Exodus 13:17-17:16) By Rabbi Minna Bromberg Oh, deliberation. It might look like that...

Parashat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16) By Cantor Dara Rosenblatt On a sunny day in early December...

Parashat Va-Yetze (Genesis 28:10-32:3) By Rabbi Jordan Schuster I’ve been thinking about John Keats lately. About...

Sukkot By Rabbi Brian Besser Yom Kippur is the most ethereal of Jewish holidays. On...

Parashat Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20) By Rabbi Elisha Herb The people stand at Sinai as would-be...

Starting Points & Destinations on our Journeys (Parashat Massei, Numbers 33:1-36:13) By Cantor Ken Richmond...

Parshat Pinchas, Numbers 25:10-30:1 By Rabbi Jane Kanarek About ten years ago, I was introduced...

Parshat Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9) By Rabbi Dan Judson This week’s Torah portion contains one of...

(Parshat Sh’lach  (Numbers, 13:1-15:41) By Rabbi Gray Myrseth And all the children of Israel murmured...

Parashat Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20) By Rabbi Jordan Braunig Four books into the Torah and here...

Parshat Behar-Behukotai (Leviticus 25:1-27:34) At a recent Keshet LGBTQ and Ally Teen Shabbaton, I asked...

Parshat Acharei Mot and Kedoshim (Leviticus 16:1-18:30 and 19:1-20-27) By Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann Just...

Parshat Shemini, Leviticus 9:1-11:47 By Rabbi Gray Myrseth On a Tuesday towards the end of...

Parasha for the Last Day of Pesach By Rabbi Elisha Herb A fire and brimstone...

Parashat Tzav (Leviticus 6:1-8:36) By Rabbi Margie Klein Ronkin My first summer on staff with...

Parashat Vayikra (Leviticus 1:1-5:26) By Rabbi Micha'el Rosenberg It’s the time of the year when...

Vayakhel-Pekudei (Exodus 35:1-40:38) By Rabbi Alyson Solomon In parshat Va’yakhel we find the Israelites, convoked,...

Parashat Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27-19) By Rabbi Adam Lavitt Speaking with a woman in hospice care,...

Parashat Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23) By Rabbi Margie Klein Ronkin As a rabbi and organizer for...

By Rabbi Brian Besser Parashat B’Shalach (Exodus 13:17-17:15) A congregant I’ll call K. just found...

By Jordan Schuster There is this scene from a tale by Rabbi Nakhman of Breslov...

Parshat Va’era (Exodus 6:2-9:35) By Avi Strausberg The year I spent living and traveling in...

Parashat Shemot (Exodus 1:1-6:1) By Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld The story of our departure from...

Parashat Vayechi (Genesis 47:28-50:26) By Rachel Adelman, PhD The Book of Genesis revolves around stories...

Parashat Vayigash  (Genesis 44:18-47:27) By Rabbi Suzanne Offit “Hinei mah tov u’ma na’im shevet achim...

Parashat Mikeitz (Genesis 41:1-44:17) This year, as is often the case, we read Parashat Mikeitz...

Parshat Vayeishev (Genesis 37:1-40:23) By Cantor Ken Richmond As someone who, by nature of my...

Parshat Vayishlach (Genesis 32:4 – 36:43) By Rabbi Leora Abelson Not long ago, a young...

By Rabbi Jordan Braunig, Rab`14 Perhaps the most memorable words from this week’s parasha, Parashat...