Because the Torah is not a book of fairy tales in which righteous people live peacefully ever after. The Torah is a book about real life, not life as we wish it to be, but life as we experience it: ...
The violence of brothers hating each other and even killing one another –which we are witnessing in Israel and Palestine in ...
When you are yourself, you can easily see that everyone is special and no one is ‘normal.’ As Tim Jackins remarked, ‘Everyone is weird and spends so much energy hiding it.’ As a poster from the Dutch ...
When Jacob awakes from his dream, he begins a process of teshuvah.
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The greatest threat against the Jews isn’t antisemitism
It's how we treat each other that will determine whether we survive, flourish, and remain a worthy people - or fail ...
My hope is that we, too, embrace the kind of wrestling that leads to blessing: wrestling with our histories, our assumptions, ...
Visiting Rabbi Liora Alban and Rabbi Daniel Freedman in their Mid City home, it’s possible to believe they’re newlyweds, even ...
The famed Likras Shabbos weekly booklets, which spread the Rebbe’s Torah in shuls across the globe, is marking its 1,000th ...
In Vayishlach, this week’s Torah portion, the third patriarch’s name gets changed during a famous encounter. Or does it?
Chanukah is a holiday of stubborn light. The Maccabees returned to a devastated Temple. The menorah had been smashed, the ...
The heavenly accusation against the Alter Rebbe, the black marie chariot, the origin of a farbrengen, and how could brothers sell Yosef.
Do we have the resolve to look past the opinions of others and seek the core truth of every person and situation?
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