Important torah portion Information
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Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman: 43rd Day of the Omer: Jerusalem -- The Heart of the World
Jerusalem from time immemorial has been the heart of the Jewish people. A request for its rebuilding is included in our prayers three times a day and all Jews, no matter where in the world, face Jerusalem to pray.
Josh Fleet: Parshat Behar-Behukotai: Weekly Torah Portion Summary, Questions, Resources
When you come to the Promised Land, the earth should rest. A Shabbat to God. Sow your fields for six years. Prune your vineyard for six years. Gather the produce for six years. In the seventh year, give it a rest. A Shabbat to God.
All the Torah news fit to print
The first issue of Torah Tidbits - the weekly "parsha pamphlet" produced for the Anglo community by the Orthodox Union's Jerusalem center - appeared in 1992 in two Jerusalem synagogues. It was a single piece of paper with a dvar Torah on one side and announcements on the other.
Torah Portion: Behar-Bechukotai
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb ~ It is an old word, and it describes a behavior that has been around since the very beginning of history. Yet the word seems... Read more »
Torah Portion: Emor
By Shlomo Riskin ~ “On the fifteenth day of this month there shall be the festival of matzot for the Lord; for seven days shall you eat matzot.” (Leviticus 23:... Read more »
Don’t worry, be happy
Each year on Yom Kippur, we read lines from this week’s Torah portion that teach us about appropriate observance during this High Holy Day. And within this reading we find the defining line, “It shall be a Sabbath of Sabbaths for you, and you shall afflict yourselves [v’initem et nafshotaichem]; it is an eternal decree” (Leviticus 16:31). Although we are not eating or doing anything that affirms ...
Synagogues slowly expanding inclusion to those with emotional, mental disabilities
On a recent Sunday, Ayla Watson celebrated her bat mitzvah. Ayla, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other behavioral difficulties, ascended the bimah and recited the Torah reading for Rosh Chodesh, the new month.
Josh Fleet: Parshat Tazria-Metzora: Weekly Torah Portion Summary, Questions, Resources
If a person is found to have real tzara'at, his clothes should be torn, his hair should be grown and he should act otherwise like a mourner. He should cry out: "I am ritually impure! I am ritually impure!" Over and over.
More than skin deep
Yuck, skin disease! This has been the cry of many a bar and bat mitzvah student when informed that this week’s Torah portion will be their Torah reading on their big day. I empathize with them, for I have had the same reaction in preparing this column.
Raising the bar brings zest, creativity to rite of passage
At his recent bar mitzvah, Noah Genco-Kamin managed to tell one of the most well-known stories in the Jewish canon — that of the Israelites wandering in the desert after the Exodus — in a way that no one present had heard it told before: from the perspective of a cow.
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