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) ...

In this week’s parashah, Nitzavim, we encounter two verses that many of us know well, as we recite them each Shabbat in the Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel: “Even if your outcasts are at ...

Based on how we prepare ourselves and determine our path during these hours and days, we will determine the quality of next year. We often discuss Am Yisrael, the Jewish nation, from different points ...

Each project is tailor-made to the campus it serves, with strategies ranging from combating antisemitism to providing Jewish programming and education about Israel. At a time when antisemitism is ...

Parashat Nitzavim records the end of Moshe’s third farewell discourse to his beloved nation, the discourse which began last week in Parashat Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 27:1) and concludes with the end of ...

For this commandment which I command you this day, is not concealed for you, nor is it far away. Things can be far away geographically or psychologically. And things can be concealed because we choose ...

“See, I have set before you today life and goodness, death and evil… therefore, choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:15, 19). These words are spoken by Moses near the very end of his life. They are not merely ...

The very two words that signify the titles of the two portions of the Torah that we will hear in the synagogue this Shabbat are, at first glance, contradictory. Nitzavim (they are standing) signifies ...

The word nitzavim – that gives its name to the first of this week’s double-sidrah – means to stand firm and tall. It is connected to the word n’tziv, a pillar or support, as used to describe the ...

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 ...