Okay so now that all the hullabaloo around the daf yomi is settling down, and you’re thinking to yourself: “Where can I get a more
[This is the second of a series of posts on nonviolence in Exodus. The first one, by Aron Wander, is here.] This article by Eli
The author, the National Jewish Educator for Avodah, originally wrote this for the Avodah Service Corps. The Festival of Sukkot is about closure. It arrives
Yesterday I was floored by the callous disregard for justice – no, I’m used to that. What I was floored by was its blatentness. To
The Torah gives just one unique commandment for Rosh HaShanah, to hear the sound of the Shofar, producing that raw, emotionally complex, array of sounds
by Aryeh Bernstein This devar torah for Parashat Ki Tavo and Labor Day was first written internally for the Avodah Service Corps, for which the
There is a Jewish folktale from Egypt called “Elijah’s Violin” and I had to go track it down after I, along with so many,
When T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights embarked on our Torah 20/20 project this past October (with funding from Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living
I think the idea that we have to either accept or reject traditions, texts, works of art because they are tainted by cultural forces or even individuals who offend us is premised on a false dichotomy. I’ll go further. I think this kind of thinking has more in common with religious fundamentalism than it does with a more humanistic approach that is a little more complicated, but ultimately much more rewarding.
If you were paying attention to this week’s Torah reading of Mattot-Massei, you were presumably horrified by the description of the genocide and sex slavery