Important weekly torah portion Information
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Why I love Jews by choice
The first conversion I ever performed as a rabbi was for a 45-year-old father of two who was in the final stages of liver cancer.
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.
How to be a priest: Parashat Emor (Leviticus 21:1-24:23)
Leviticus is the biblical book rabbis do not want you to read. Saturated with sacrificial minutiae and unsettling descriptions of ritual impurity, its countless sheep and goat offerings seem a more effective salve for insomnia than any woe that pains the heart.
Rabbi Melissa Weintraub: An 'Eye for an Eye' and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: It's Not What You Think
Sadly, many of us here in America, reproduce this conflict's us-and-them ethos from 7,000 miles away, and so have thrown ourselves in on the side of escalation rather than resolution.
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.
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