Category: Bereishit
OF TWO BEGINNINGS
This week, an article in The Atlantic grabbed my eye. It described the enigmatic sacoglossa... Read More
A LESSON FROM SALMON STARTERS (PODCAST)
In the mid-1990s, an elderly grandfather randomly attended a pre-Bar Mitzvah celebration dinner food tasting... Read More
A LESSON FROM SALMON STARTERS
Long ago—far longer than I am willing to admit—when I was a young rabbi teaching... Read More
TRY AND TRY AGAIN (PODCAST)
Rabbi Dunner uses an obscure and regularly misattributed nineteenth-century poem to help illustrate a fascinating... Read More
TRY AND TRY AGAIN
The name Thomas Haig Palmer will mean nothing to you unless you are a keen... Read More
BEING A PRACTICAL DREAMER
This week I attended the benefactor screening of Never Stop Dreaming, a new movie about... Read More
THE DANGERS OF EXAGGERATED CAUTION
I don’t expect that you have heard of Dr. Ian Walker, a professor at Bath... Read More
UNDERSTANDING THE TORAH’S STORIES
One of the most puzzling aspects of the Torah is the inclusion of material that... Read More