The laws of Mishpatim aim to help create a just and sensitive society based upon the memory of the Exodus. How we treat others matters. Fairness, equity, fighting for the rights of the widow, poor, ...

In this week's parsha (Torah portion), the last parsha of the Torah, which is read as we celebrate Simchat Torah and which marks the conclusion of the Torah, we encounter the poignant final words of ...

This Shabbat, we will be remembering a time when, in temple days, the people were commanded to give a half shekel piece. Each ...

1620, Pilgrim leader William Bradford, later the Governor of Plymouth Colony, reading the Mayflower Compact on board the Mayflower off the coast of what became known as Massachusetts. (Photo by ...

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A more general understanding of the sacrificial service may flow when considering an important aspect of covenant, the contractual partnership between God and His people. The two major covenants in ...

As a child, I attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaath. Every day at morning services, I was mesmerized by an older man named Rabbi Chaim Gelb. I can still remember Reb Chaim calling out “Amen.” Sometimes he’d ...