Judaism

By Rabbi Nathan Martin Parshat Vayeitzei In this week’s parshah, we encounter the famous episode where Jacob, on the run from having deceived his brother out...

Let’s be real: Chanukah is far from the most theologically significant Jewish holiday on the calendar. Reasonable minds can differ over whether it counts, strictly...

Without cheating: Do you know when the first night of Chanukah is this year? Go ahead, take a guess. It’s Dec. 22! You’ve actually got...

By Rabbi Gregory Marx Parshat Toldot Most Biblical commentators interpret the conflict between Jacob and Essau in Parshat Toldot as the perennial struggle between nations. Israel then...

By Rabbi Daniel Levitt Parshat Chayei Sarah Picture this: You work for an incredibly influential, powerful and famous family. Your boss has met with world leaders,...

Parshat Vayera By Rabbi Barry Blum “And Abraham stretched his hand, and took the knife to slay his son, Yitzhak. The angel of the Lord called...

By Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit Parshat Lech Lecha Dedicated to the all the sacred work of mesnchwork.org and my father Lester, on his journey with Alzheimer’s...

By Rabbi Jason Bonder Parshat Noach There is a character in the 2009 Walt Disney film “Up” named Dug. Dug is a dog who wears a...

Throughout this Sukkot, lulavs were shaken but so, too, were sukkahs — many to their makeshift foundations, by a record-setting storm classified as a...

The phrase adult bar or bat mitzvah, if not an apparent contradiction in terms, reads with some incongruity. Why would you need a bar...