(RNS) — Last week, as the flames engulfed the hills and valleys of Los Angeles, I heard the awful news of the complete destruction of the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center, a synagogue with a hundred ...

Right after the drama of Sinai – thunder, lightning, revelation, the Ten Commandments described in Parashat Yitro – the Torah does something unexpected. It gets… practical. Parashat Mishpatim does not ...

At a unique crossroads between religion and cuisine, the holiday of Shavuot, which begins this year at sunset on Sunday, June 1, and concludes at nightfall on Tuesday, June 3, celebrates the Giving of ...

By seating the elders at the front of the synagogue, the entire congregation bestows honor upon the Torah and its Sages.

If you follow My statutes and observe My commandments and perform them, I will give your rains in their time, the Land will yield its produce, and the tree of the field will give forth its fruit. In ...

This week’s Torah portion, Va-yakhel, is the first of two Torah portions concerned with the building of the Mishkan. In next week’s portion, Pekudei, we find the actual dedication of the Mishkan. I ...

Hudson, remembers being very aware as he grew up that as he attended school and was in classrooms that were almost always a ...