Category: Torah Portions

DO CHILDREN SUFFER FOR THEIR PARENTS’ SINS?

Rabbi Dunner looks at an extremely strange statement in the Ten Commandments: For I am... Read More

AN ABUNDANCE OF WATER

Water has been in the news a lot this week. In Michigan, Governor Rick Snyder... Read More

LOOK BEYOND THE OBVIOUS

Last Sunday, a whole group of us from Beverly Hills Synagogue went to visit the... Read More

MOSES, PHARAOH, AND THE LAST THREE PLAGUES

Parshat Bo contains the last three of the ten plagues inflicted on Egypt in the... Read More

GOD’S BLUEPRINT FOR JEWISH IDENTITY

I have not read Dorit Rabinyan’s book ‘Borderlife’, and I’m pretty sure I never will.... Read More

THE CONTRADICTIONS OF GREAT LEADERSHIP

As we enter the year 2016 our attention is constantly distracted by the U.S. presidential... Read More

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT

I have often wondered why it is that so many people do not engage with... Read More

THE ELEVATION OF EPHRAIM & MANASSEH

When Jacob summoned Joseph towards the end of his life (Bereishit 48), he reminisced with... Read More