On March 27, 2012, to celebrate the diamond jubilee of the Queen, an ancient ceremony took place at Buckingham Palace. A number of institutions presented

Etre ailleurs, “To be elsewhere – the great vice of this race, its great and secret virtue, the great vocation of this people.” So wrote

Hidden beneath the surface of parshat Pinchas, the Sages uncovered a story of great poignancy. Moses—having seen his sister and brother die—knew that his own

There is an old saying that what makes God laugh is seeing our plans for the future. However, if Tanach is our guide, what makes

It took me two years to recover from the death of my father, of blessed memory. To this day, almost 20 years later, I am

It was a classic struggle for power. The only thing that made it different from the usual dramas of royal courts, parliamentary meetings or corridors

One of the most powerful addresses I ever heard was given by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, zt”l, on this week’s parsha: the

There have been times when one passage in this week’s parsha was, for me, little less than lifesaving. No leadership position is easy. Leading Jews

At one hundred and seventy six verses, Naso is the longest of the parshiyot. Yet one of its most moving passages, and the one that

In English, the book we begin this week is called Numbers, and for an obvious reason. It begins with a census, and there is even

  This week we read the tochecha, the terrifying curses warning of what would happen to Israel if it betrayed its Divine mission. We read

In last week’s parsha and this, there are two quite similar commands—both of which have to do with counting time. Last week, we read about