What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.
There are many connections that can be made between veganism and the Jewish festivals of Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret (the Eighth Day of Solemn Assembly), and Simchat Torah: 1. Sukkot commemorates the 40 ...
This Shavuot, as we gather to celebrate the giving of the Torah, we do well to ask ourselves: What does it mean to be faithful to the Law of Moses in the light of the life and teachings of Jesus? Was ...
A local pastor is leading a double life. On the one hand, the Rev. Chad Foster serves as a Christian minister and director of life at St. Peter’s Lutheran in Columbus. On the other, the 42-year-old ...
Rabbi Abi Weber This week’s Torah portion is Mikeitz: Genesis 41:1 - 44:17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, but no one... Rabbi Gila Ruskin This week's Torah portion is Parshat ...
EDWARDS, Colorado – Maia Fishman and Brielle Quigley, both 7 years old, placed their tiny delicate hands on the same kind of feather quill Moses used and helped inscribe a few letters in a new Torah – ...
Simchat Torah is about more than beginning to read the Torah all over again. It’s about the need to reexamine what we think we know, over and over again. The Jewish holiday known as Simchat Torah, ...
Remarkably, this principle is not limited to the Jewish people. The Rambam (Hilchot Melachim 9:1) writes that Adam HaRishon was commanded on six mitzvot, and Noach was later given a seventh—eating ...
Editor’s note: On August 24, 2011, Rabbi Menachem Youlus was arrested in Manhattan on fraud charges. Prosecutors accused him of selling fake Torahs and pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars ...
Ah, the things you can learn by searching the many websites devoted to government contracting, job recruitment and materiel. The U.S. Army wants a Torah scroll. And not just any Torah scroll: they ...