From the week of December 30 This is one of the famous Torah portions that will be read during Chanukah. Our saga begins with the dreams of Pharoah, which are

 Our Torah portion is called “shoftim,” meaning judges, as the opening verse teaches: “judges and officers shall you make in all your gates…and they shall judge the people with righteous

For the week of July 26 The narrative ending last week’s Torah portion depicts another Israelite failure. Many men yielded to the blandishments of Midianite women in the desert, and

For the week of July 19 Our Torah portion “Balak” is given over to one incident. The Israelites have one more piece of territory to traverse before reaching the Jordan

For the week of July 5, 2024 Korach is a man’s name, and he is a cousin to Moses and Aaron. Chapters 16 and 17 describe his challenge to Moses’

For the week of Friday, June 28, 2024 In last week’s Torah reading, our people began their trek to the promised land. In this portion, they are on the edge

For the week of Friday, June 21, 2024 Our Torah portion begins with repeated instructions to the priests concerning the lighting of the seven-branched menorah, in the open-air sanctuary. Be’haalo’techa

For the week of Friday, May 14 This week’s Torah portion includes one of the most frequently invoked of all biblical passages, the “birkat Kohanim,” or priestly blessing. These famous

For the week of Friday, May 7, 2024 The poet wrote: “between the dream and the reality falls the shadow.” Shadows reveal a host of images that may be both

For the week of May 31, 2024 This Torah portion, which concludes the book of Leviticus, is so named for the first important word, which means “statutes” (and comes from