Category: Torah Portions
THE TRUTH ABOUT SELF-INTEREST
The celebrated American novelist Veronica Roth, whose Divergent trilogy was successfully adapted into a series... Read More
BE NICE TO THE STRANGER
The Torah connects the mitzva of being nice to a "ger" with the Jewish nation's... Read More
JUSTICE DENIED IS GOD DENIED (PODCAST)
Miscarriages of justice, such as the notorious Hudspeth case of 1892, the Johnson lynching of... Read More
JUSTICE DENIED IS GOD DENIED
In the late 1880s, Charles “Andy” Hudspeth, a farmhand in Arkansas, made the mistake of... Read More
IN FRONT AND AHEAD (VIDEO)
What is the significance of the word "lifneihem" (in front of them) in the opening... Read More
IN FRONT AND AHEAD
What is the significance of the word "lifneihem" (in front of them) in the opening... Read More
MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS
The Ten Commandments are the most important mitzvot in the Torah, not least because they... Read More
NOT A PARADOX AT ALL (PODCAST)
How do we reconcile the existence of pointless suffering with a loving, omnipotent God? How... Read More