This week we begin to reread the Torah, our book of stories. After a heart breaking week of random violence, the terrible ongoing cycle of hurt, revenge and hatred, I wonder what words and images in ...

Rashi famously begins his commentary to Sefer Bereshit with the words of a midrash: Rabbi Yitzchak said, “The Torah should have begun with Kiddush Ha-Chodesh (Sanctification of the New Month), which ...

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