For the last few months, I have been mulling over my decision to leave Omer, where I have lived for more than 50 years with my late husband and raised three children. This decision was not taken ...

Parshat Bo contains the final three of the infamous ten plagues, among them darkness, one of the most frightening of them all. כא וַיֹּאֶמר ה׳ ֶאל־מֶֹשׁה ְנֵטה יְָדָך ַעל־ַה ָשַּׁמיִם וִיִהי ...

It’s a classic icebreaker question, the kind asked at youth groups and dinner parties to reveal what people truly value. We imagine ourselves making rapid calculations – photos, heirlooms, the ...

Rabbi Amy Joy Small was is the Senior Rabbi of Ohavi Zedek Synagogue of Burlington, Vermont from 2016. Previously, Rabbi Small worked in Jewish innovation by creating and directing Deborah’s Palm ...

Malka Rappaort is a student. as the Ziegler school. This week’s Torah portion- Parashat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16)- features the final three plagues of Egypt, the People of Israel’s departure from Egypt, ...

Parshat Bo contains the last 3 of the ten Makkot; the culmination of the redemption would soon take place. The commentaries grapple with a fundamental difficulty that lies at the core of the ...

October 7 shattered every illusion. In a single morning, thousands of terrorists crossed the border, communities were overrun, families were torn apart, and the State of Israel was caught unprepared.

'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' was a crude forgery that peddled the myth of a clandestine Jewish cabal manipulating institutions under the guise of doing good. The night finally arrived. After ...

The first mitzvah that Hakadosh Baruch Hu commanded us as a nation was “hachodesh hazeh lachem rosh chodoshim’ – the mitzvah to sanctify the New Moon. Each month, we make note of this in the bracha ...

How did the Jews find grace in the eyes of the Egyptians, when they were the source all the plagues and destruction to begin with? It is true that the real blame should have fallen on Pharaoh; but it ...