Vayeilech, this week's Torah portion, presents Moses at age 120, providing comfort and guidance as he speaks to the ...

Join Rabbi Eric Yanoff as he reflects on the poignant message in Vayeilech, linking tradition to modern emotions.

This week’s Torah portion, Nitzavim (“Stand up and be counted”), contains stark language. Choose – life or death, blessing or ...

Because of our roots of having been downtrodden, we should have empathy for those who are now subject to the whims of history ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

This week’s Torah portion is about mass fear, or better put, how to stave off mass fear. Mass fear makes people, and groups of people, think, say, and do irrational and destructive things. You ...

As the poet Robert Frost reminded us, “Good fences make good neighbors.” And as Brene Brown teaches, boundaries are not ...

Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. A young woman is gingerly applying ...

Last week, our communities gathered to mark the one-year yahrzeit observance of the tragedy of Oct. 7. While each communal event was different, there were common themes. Foremost, of course, was the ...

The Red Sea split, paving an improbable path. Water became walls on either side, towering and still. As Pharaoh’s chariots thundered in pursuit of the fleeing Israelites, nations on the sidelines ...