Rabbi Suzanne Singer joined Temple Beth El of Riverside CA in 2008. She has been actively engaged in social justice work, serving as a member of the Inland Congregations United for Change (ICUC) ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky, leader of the Anshe Chessed congregation in Manhattan. Rabbi Kalmanofsky was ordained in 1997 by The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he ...

If you knew that tomorrow was the last day of your life – what would you choose to do today? Rav Eliyahu KiTov describes Moshe’s last day in his book Sefer HaParshiot, drawing on classic commentaries ...

Rosh Hashana, which we celebrate on September 23, is always preceded by parashat Nitzavim, the first half of the double portion to be read on September 16, and I'd like to suggest that this is hardly ...

This week’s Torah portion is Vayeilech: Deuteronomy 31:1 – 30 In January 2024, on my second trip back to Israel after the Oct. 7 tragedy, I was stopped in my tracks by a short bit of street poetry, ...

Parashat Nitzavim: Isaiah on 'hasbara' If Israel raises its voice with confidence and persistence, its light will break through, its righteousness will be seen by the nations, and its glory ...

French Sculptor Auguste Rodin’s, "The Thinker" turned "LEFT" You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, ...

The Sages taught: A person should always to sell all he has to marry the daughter of a Torah scholar. If he cannot find the daughter of a Torah scholar, he should marry the daughter of great of the ...

In this week’s haftara, the last of the series of seven readings of comfort from the prophet Yeshayahu, we find a striking metaphor. The prophet describes the ideal redemptive and purposeful life in ...