With God, It鈥檚 Complicated . . .
Mar 11, 2016 By Rami Schwartzer | Commentary | Pekudei
For a story that began with the promise of intimacy, I had hoped for a happier ending.
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Here I Am, 罢锄补谤补鈥檃迟 and All
Apr 8, 2016 By Rachel Rosenthal | Commentary | Tazria
When I was 12, a few weeks before my bat mitzvah I went in to meet with one of the rabbis of my synagogue. At the time, the synagogue newsletter included a 鈥�pasuk of the week,鈥� a verse from that week鈥檚 Torah portion that was particularly interesting or thought provoking. However, as the rabbi confessed to me, the week of my bat mitzvah was to be the end of that custom. He just couldn鈥檛 find anything that fit the bill. That week鈥檚 parashah? Tazria.
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Our Capacity for Evil, Our Capacity for Good
Jul 27, 1996 By Ismar Schorsch | Commentary | Va'et-hannan
On the first anniversary of the bomb blast which erased 168 lives in the Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, the New York Times ran a photograph on the front page of Jannie Coverdale, who had lost two grandsons.
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Jewish Time
Jul 13, 1996 By Ismar Schorsch | Commentary | Masei | Mattot
The tantalizingly fragmented book of Numbers closes with a new generation of Israelites, born and bred in the wilderness, poised to cross the Jordan from the west at Jericho.
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Wealth and Ego
Jun 22, 1996 By Ismar Schorsch | Commentary | Korah
Our parasha this week bears and perpetuates the name of Korah, the arch rebel against Moses’s leadership.
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There Are No Shortcuts
Jun 8, 1996 By Ismar Schorsch | Commentary | Beha'alotekha
The nation Moses brought out of Egypt shared neither his vision nor faith.
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Who Was Nethanel Ben Zuar?
Jun 1, 1996 By Ismar Schorsch | Commentary | Naso
You will indulge me, I hope, if I stay with the minor biblical figure of Nethanel son of Zuar, leader of the tribe of Issachar, for another week.
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How We Acquire Our Names
May 18, 1996 By Ismar Schorsch | Commentary | Bemidbar
I am not the same person I was last year when we read the book of Numbers in the synagogue.
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