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LeviticusThe Eighth Day

Deuteronomy How Moses Comes to Terms with Mortality

Parashat Vayelech (Deuteronomy 31:1-30) In my work as a geriatric chaplain in a ...

Deuteronomy Shabbat and the Persistence of Slavery

Parashat Va’etchanan (Deuteronomy 3:27-7:11) Not everything that is faced can ...

Genesis Joseph, Pharaoh, and the Perpetual Stranger

Parashat Mikeitz (Genesis 41:1-44:17) This year, as is often the case, we read P...

Numbers Wonder Woman and Pinchas: The Persistent Appeal of Zealotry

Parashat Pinchas (Numbers 25:10 – 30:1) In the film Wonder Woman (2017), t...

Community Blog Shame and Drawing Close to Holiness (Parshat Shemini, Leviticus 9:1-11:47)

In a 2016 New York Times Op-Ed, Sally L. Satel and Scott O. Lilien feld observe ...