Parasha

Your Investments: Greatest danger to Israel's moral mission is prosperity without discipline

It’s important to teach your children the importance of saving. I think that teens should have a bank account. They can learn how compound interest works.

Child with Israel flag 370
A mosaic of King David (illustartive)

Parashat Vayechi: King David's lesson in leadership

 Rembrandt - Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife

Vayigash after October 7: Tears, envy, and consolation pedagogy - opinion

HOW MUCH subtlety can survive in 100 cramped words?

Parashat Vayishlack: Nuance in an age of absolutism


Parashat Vayishlack: I lack nothing

A significant expression of their differing worldviews appears in their attitudes toward wealth – a perspective that influences all aspects of life.

 Money and a calculator

Parashat Vayetze: When a nation forgets its source

If Israel, like Jacob, holds fast to its mission – even in exile, even in danger, even in darkness – then the promise of Hosea still stands.

An illustrative image of a nest and egg in human hands.

Parashat Toldot: A call for impassioned Jewish renewal

If the parasha is a saga of inheritance, of blessings fought over and destinies forged, then the haftarah is its echo, reminding us that a spiritual legacy must not merely be received, but upheld.

 SCRIBES FINISH writing a Torah scroll.

Parashat Chayei Sarah: Politics, power, perils of ambition

Politics, the haftarah reminds us, is not inherently corrupt. It becomes corrupt when it forgets that leadership is service, not self-promotion.

 SCRIBES FINISH writing a Torah scroll.

Parashat Chayei Sara: ‘Ger v’toshav’ – unfinished belonging 

Until our people are gathered and the land is restored, we remain wanderers yearning for wholeness.

PATIENCE REQUIRED...

Parashat Chayei Sarah: All are equally good

Sarah’s greatest achievement was her ability to live calmly and serenely

A LAMP burned continuously – symbolizing unceasing light and joy.

Hebron and Gaza: Ishmael's descendants fight relentlessly against the Jews - opinion

The descendants of Ishmael are determined to fight the Jews relentlessly – and the world favors them, in the 1920s and again today.

JEWS STAND at the Abraham’s tomb monument in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

Parashat Vayera: Faith is stronger than reality

Can faith prevail over reason and reality? Scripture’s answer is clear. What seems impossible to man is never beyond the power of God.

Elisha Raising the Son of the Shunamite, by Frederic Leighton, 1881, oil on canvas - Leighton House Museum - London, England.

Parashat Lech Lecha: The call of aliyah

From Yemenite Jews in Operation Magic Carpet to Soviet refuseniks, Ethiopian families, and Bnei Menashe from India, Isaiah’s vision has been realized in our own time.

An illustrative image of Jews making aliyah to Israel.

Parashat Lech Lecha: From Everyman to hero

The Torah presents Abraham not as a spiritual giant chosen by default but as Everyman. He is not depicted as a polished hero with prior accomplishments but as an ordinary person.

An illustrative image of God calling on Abraham to leave his country to the Promised Land.

Parashat Lech Lecha: Hagar and the God who sees

The story of Hagar reminds us that sovereignty brings with it responsibility – to see, to hear, and to act with compassion toward those who remain vulnerable in our midst.

Artistic impression of Abraham sending Hagar and her son off.