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Six Days Shall You Work

Shabbat is important, yet our behavior during the other six days is no less a part of religious life.

The Mishkan as Signifier

Linking representation and action.

Haftarah for Terumah

How to build a Temple: Follow the instruction book.

From Insecurity to Sovereignty

Like the manna in the desert, food aid policies often do not foster real freedom.

The Israeli Flag

Blue and white, and a symbol of the Jewish state.

Beit Dins and Sanhedrin

In the Second Temple period, a system of Jewish courts emerged.

Levirate Marriage and Halitzah

Ancient customs involving a childless widow.

Israel Before the State

Jews in the Land of Israel from the destruction of the Temple through the Ottoman Empire.

American Jewish Humor in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s

Jerry Lewis, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce and More

A Burning Within

We must find the causes that make us most passionate--and work for change.

Transformative Testimony

We must insist on hearing the voices of survivors of contemporary global violence.

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