We can achieve great things when we work together, when we share, cooperate and collaborate. The scale and scope of the Mishkan project is so vast and intricate that it could only come about if ...

This week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh, is the only Torah portion, from the beginning of Exodus through the end of Deuteronomy, from which Moses is completely absent. Everywhere else in Exodus, Numbers, ...

This week’s Torah portion, T’rumah, represents another abrupt shift in focus within the book of Exodus from the mostly legal material of last week’s portion, Mishpatim, to the first of ...

The story of every nation is the story of its leaders — and how they leave, writes the author of the forthcoming “The Torah of Leadership.” We often invoke the Hebrew phrase “l’dor v’dor,” from ...

One of the most disastrous of our national episodes during our desert sojourn occurs in this week’s Torah portion. After the ...

A young woman is gingerly applying lipstick for her upcoming date, unaware of the horrible fate awaiting her. This may sound like the description of a new Netflix drama but it’s actually a scene in a ...

There’s something wonderfully ironic about the fact that Purim almost always lands during this week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh. On the surface, they seem like opposites. Purim is loud, funny, chaotic.

Every Shabbos, Jews in synagogues of all denominations hear the cantor, rabbi or a layperson chant that week’s Torah portion from an open scroll. But Yiddish scholar Sheva Zucker says you don’t need ...