Named one of the 500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles in 2016 and again in 2017, Most Influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek and one of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the World by The ...

The images of young men starved and tortured in propaganda videos released by their evil Hamas captors seared the conscience of our people. As the cycle of Torah readings begins anew with Parshat ...

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In parashat Bereshit (the first portion of Genesis - ed.), we find the famous story of Adam and Chava (Adam & Eve). There are many midrashim and mefarshim (commentaries) on the story, but looking at ...

We must take pride in these values that the Torah bequeaths to us and continue to pray for good tidings, salvation, and comfort. “A time of trouble for Jacob, but from it, he shall be saved” (Jeremiah ...

Chapter five of Bereshit closes the parsha with a list of the ten generations from Adam to Noah, where chapter eleven similarly closes Noah with a list of ten generations from Shem (Noah’s son) to ...

My family recently moved into a smaller house. A lot of work went into trying to reduce the chaos of the big day, but it was, after all,a move. Unpacking took much longer, as we determined what would ...

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