And the settlers who throw dirty diapers at security forces one day bring them cookies the next. When I was released from ...

How do Moses and Isaac connect to academia and barn dancing? To answer, I’d like to quote my favorite and most oft-cited dvar Torah, which is from this week’s parsha. It starts with a ...

After that, I committed to myself that each turn I had to teach on the parsha, I would include the voice of someone who was not a man in my dvar Torah.

Finally the long narrative of the construction of the Tabernacle - to which the Torah devotes more space than any other single subject - is at an end. The building, its frame, drapes and sacred ...

Dvar Torah: Achrei Mot and Seder Part I: Holy people, Holy Land. Part II: Never Underestimate the Power of a Story ...

The Dvar Torah I gave yesterday at my grandson Shimon Greenland’s Bar Mitzvah.

To see God’s Hand in our world is represented in the “bread of faith” known as the Matzah. To lose sight of God’s Hand in this world is represented by the Chometz.

Ahavnu-Beirachnu-Gadalnu…A Dvar Torah before Yom Kippur One author’s reflection on how we can measure the “length of our days” when we look back on our own lives Advertisement ...

Twenty years ago the physician and Zen Master, Jon Kabat-Zinn, wrote a book he called “Where Ever You Go There You Are.” The book’s ...

This week Joseph, hearing that his father Jacob is on the edge of death, brings his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, to see their old grandfather. Knowing ...

This Shabbat, we enter the 3 rd of the Five Books of Moses. It is a book of the Torah which contains precious little narrative and hardly any interesting stories. Instead we find a heavy ...