On November 14, Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy’s Center for Community Education hosted Rabbi Nati Helfgot’s presentation “Homosexuality, Jewish Thought, and What Do We Teach Our Children?”
From beginning to end, Genesis chapter 34 tells a terrifying story. Dina, Jacob’s daughter—the only Jewish daughter mentioned in the entire patriarchal narrative—leaves the safety
Part I We seek to demonstrate that the United Nations vote that led to the founding of the State of Israel was an event similar
A society in which technology enables us to deal effortlessly with many of life’s difficulties raises the issue of the value of challenges and struggles.
Wednesday of this coming week is the yahrzeit of my mother-in-law, Rebbetzin Ita Singer, a”h. Many of you who know my father-in-law, Rabbi Singer, his
Parshat Vayishlach He is a mystery! This navi named Ovadya, whose sefer of but one chapter is read for the haftarah this week—who was he?
Yaakov endures a lifetime of confrontation and chaos. He grappled with his father-in-law, warred with the local rapists of Shechem, and, toward the end of
When we moved into our home 14 years ago there was a beautiful path consisting of slabs of bluestone from our front door to the
In the beginning of this week’s parsha, as Yaakov prepares for his reunion with Esav, the Torah outlines three different strategies that he employs toward
Taanit 9a describes two interactions between Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish’s young son. In the first, Rabbi Yochanan asks the child to relate what verse
At the beginning of the Parshat Vayishlach (32:23) it states that Yaakov took his two wives, two handmaidens and 11 sons over the Yabok river.
This phrase appears three times in Tanach. Outside of our parsha it appears at Gen. 48:7 and 2 Kings 5:19. (These other times, the second
