We read in the Torah that the 10 Commandments were engraved on stone tablets. There is a well known rabbinic word play on the word “engraved.” The Hebrew word for “engraved” in Exodus 32:15 is “charut ...
Like many Jewish Louisianans, I followed with interest the so-called “Ten Commandments” bill which Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law this week. It requires public schools, including ...
I’ll start my thought on Shav’uot with a bit of “Adult Education” and then to a thought that addresses the inner life. “Decalogue” in Exodus 34:28 came into English as “ten verses” in the Tyndale ...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A 17-foot-tall modernist statue stands in the atrium of Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. Shards of broken metal lie at the figure's feet, and he raises a rectangular slab ...