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Mar 6, 2018, 10:39 PM

Parshat Pekudei: Why is silver for the Mishkan sourced differently than gold and copper?

Earlier, in Parshat Terumah G-d, via Moses, had called for the voluntary contribution of various precious and other materials needed for the design and construction of the משכן, the Tabernacle. Only those men who were twenty or older and...

Feb 11, 2018, 12:09 PM

It’s February and in the United States, that means it’s tax season. Whether you identify with the one percent, the 99% or even the “47” %, this is the time of the year that virtually all of us spend...

Feb 8, 2018, 2:44 PM

Transforming fate into destiny [Parshat Mishpatim]

At Sinai, the Jewish nation entered into its second covenant with God, a pact based not on the family-nation of the descendants of Abraham . An individual is not asked whether they wish to be born into a specific family...

Karen Miller Jackson

Feb 7, 2018, 11:26 PM

On Women’s Spirituality

Recent reports of rabbis in Israel denigrating women going to the army and women in general have been particularly upsetting. So I’d like to dedicate the following words of Torah to the brave, spiritual young women who devote time...

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