Holy space our ancestors couldn’t imagine
By Rabbi Jennifer Weiner
This week’s Torah portion is Terumah, Exodus 25:1 - 27:19.
How many of us are Zoomed out? In the beginning of Zoom...
The religious side of civil law
By Rabbi Elliot Kaplowitz
Special to WJW
This week’s Torah portion is Mishpatim, Exodus 21:1 - 24:18.
Parshat Mishpatim seems to mark a transition in the Torah....
They tried to kill us. We keep God before us. Let’s eat.
By Rabbi Alana Suskin
Special to WJW
This week’s Torah reading is Yitro, Exodus 18:1 - 20:23.
The Ten Commandments, which appear for the first time in...
What we learned in the desert
By Tzippy Ross
This week’s Torah portion is Beshalach, Exodus 13:17-17:16.
This week’s parshah is a transition when B’nai Yisrael leave behind their lives as slaves...
How much longer? — the eternal question
By Rabbi Craig Axler
Special to WJW
This week’s Torah portion is Bo, Exodus 10:1-13:16.
“How much longer?” It’s a question parents of young children often have...
Four verbs that set us free
By Rabbah Arlene Berger
Special to WJW
This week’s Torah portion is Va’era, Exodus 6:2-9:35.
We are living in extraordinary times that impact each of us emotionally,...
Slavery then and now
By Rabbi Charles Feinberg
This week’s Torah portion is Shemot, Exodus 1:1 – 6:1.
This week we begin reading the Book of Exodus with Parshat Shemot....
The man who saw too much — and too little
By Rabbi Adam Rosenwasser
Special to WJW
This week’s Torah portion is Vayechi, Genesis 47:28 - 50:26.
This week, our Torah teaches us a lesson about a...
As if a pandemic had ended, Joseph reunites with his brothers
By Rabbi Amy Schwartzman
This week’s Torah portion is Vayigash, Genesis 44:18-47:27.
Parshat Vayigash tells of two important milestones for the Jewish people who, at that...
What Joseph got wrong
By Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
This week’s Torah portion is Miketz, Genesis 41:1 – 44:17.
One of the most fascinating aspects of the portions we are reading...
