GREENBELT, Md. (WUSA9) -- Two teenagers were shot while walking to an event at a Greenbelt synagogue on Saturday evening, according to Greenbelt City Police. Officers responded to a report of gunshots ...

When looking for biblical themes on the importance of community, one needs look no further than those portions at the end of Exodus that deal with the construction of the mishkan (Tabernacle). This ...

Every year until the current one, I was completely disinterested and detached from the פרשיות (Torah portions) in the book of שמות (Exodus) focused on the משכן (Mishkan), the holy tabernacle that was ...

The relationship of the command to construct the Mishkan, Tabernacle, to the narrative of the Mishkan's actual construction is quite puzzling. That is to say, in the Torah reading of Parshas Terumah, ...

Design is something that is often on my mind. Not in a capacity as an architect, or an interior designer, nor even as the craftsman that I like to think that I am, but as an educator exploring the ...

Rabbi Dr N. L. Cardozo puts the dilemma of our two detailed parshiot perfectly: “When studying the last chapters of Shemot, we are puzzled by the great amount of detail and repetition in the ...

Bearing in mind that prayer is not confined to any place, why are there designated places – like synagogues – for tefillah? To answer this question, let us consider the first time the Israelites ...

The biblical understanding of the words yidvenu libo is a willing heart, to give voluntarily. The question for me is why does G-d open the sentence with “let them take for Me a portion,” making a ...