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Wind and Rain, Resilience and Abundance

Earlier this week in the Pacific Northwest we waited for a storm that wasn’t.A big storm of heavy rain and ...

Judaism and Policing

Though the Torah commands the appointment of "officers" to uphold the law, Jewish tradition does not recognize crime as a legal category.

Who Was Rashi?

The most widely read Jewish Bible commentator, he also wrote a running commentary to the Babylonian Talmud.

Writing About The Holocaust

It was a day like any other. I was absorbed in the details of my life, answering an overflowing stack ...

OAD: On Another Derech

I recently heard Rabbi Joseph Telushkin speak about the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe believed that words mattered so much that ...

The Torah Service

The Torah is taken out during prayer services on Shabbat, Mondays and Thursdays.

Truth and Lies in the Jewish Tradition

Jewish moralist literature sets a high standard of truthtelling, but one not without exceptions.

About Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Age and its significance, terminology, parents' blessing, parent-child dynamics, and motivations for adult bar/bat mitzvah.

Eruvin 46

The more the merrier.

Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12: The Death of Moses

The first Torah reading for Simchat Torah

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