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Avram the wanderer, the God-addled refugee who the midrash has literally smashing his father’s idols and surviving his king’s trial by fire; Avram the migrant who fled Haran after fleeing Ur Kasdim with his family at the urging of his father whose idols w…

There is an Israeli election coming up very soon!

“Keep far from a false charge; do not bring death on those who are innocent and in the right, for I will not acquit the wrongdoer.” — Exodus 23:7 I wrote on October 7, 2023 — the day of the Hamas attack, with Israel’s bombs already falling on Gaza — that…

Tip O’neil took credit for the saying “all politics is local.”

I’ve been having a hard time thinking about praying this Yom Kippur.

There are names on the “Reject the Lie” letter who should know better.

by Ben Neriah שֹׁפְטִ֣ים וְשֹֽׁטְרִ֗ים תִּֽתֶּן־לְךָ֙ בְּכׇל־שְׁעָרֶ֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֨ר ה֧׳ אֱ״לֹהֶ֛יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לְךָ֖ לִשְׁבָטֶ֑יךָ וְשָׁפְט֥וּ אֶת־הָעָ֖ם מִשְׁפַּט־צֶֽדֶק׃ You shall appoint judges and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that the Lo…

There is a story that is told in Mishnah Yoma as the origin story for why certain tasks in the Temple were assigned based on a lottery.

The faculty of the American Jewish University / Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies is grieved and angered at the horrific shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego.

For more than a century, the Anti-Defamation League presented itself as a bridge-builder: a Jewish civil rights organization that linked the safety of Jewish communities to universal protections and coalition politics.

For several years, the same trollish take about the winter holidays has rattled through my head.

guest post by Mollie Leibowitz Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion Rabban Gamaliel the son of Rabbi Judah HaNasi once “saw a skull which floated on the face of the water, and he said, ‘Because you drowned others you were drowned; and in the…

I have found it challenging to figure out how to teach Torah to my now four-year-old child.