On a pshat level, the story of Yaakov, Eisav and the birthright presents the ethically sensitive reader with many questions. Eisav is foolish and irresponsible,
Attention all artists! Today is the day- the deadline for applications to be one of two Poretsky Artists in Residence at the National Havurah Committee
OY. Thank you to Oliver Miller from the FasterTimes for summing up this ridiculousness and saying what we were all thinking: OHHHHH CHRISTMAS YOU SO
For those of you in the city alleged never to sleep, Purim comes early this year with the New York City Opera‘s production of Esther,
From yesterday’s Ha’artez: The Israel Defense Forces’ chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program last week that soldiers who “show mercy” toward the
This is a painful opinion piece from this week’s New York Jewish Week. Devorah Zlochower and Rabbi Dov Linzer are luminaries in the progressive/open Orthodox
Actually this isn’t so much the thing itself that’s weird as the place selling it: apparently CostCo is now going to sell “The Illustrated Torah.”
(Crossposted to Mah Rabu.) Independent minyanim have been popping up all over the press lately. First of all, they make an appearance in this CNN
“We are all mediators, translators.” -Jacques Derrida There have been three distinct moments since I began learning in the Jewish legal tradition that have significantly