The Book of Leviticus (Sefer Vayikra), whose very name (“God called to Moses”) underscoring the Torah’s call to be in ...

Like Nadav and Avihu, who in their spiritual fervor sought to draw closer to the Divine, Hamilton possessed an intense inner ...

His first time in Israel was 1948. Born and raised in the mellah (Jewish quarter) of Marrakesh, my father left Morocco for ...

Our portion lists four animals that lack one of the two signs of purity. The midrash associates these four animals with the ...

In one of the most fascinating and cryptic stories in Torah, two of the sons of Aaron the high priest, Nadav and Avihu, ...

Freedom comes when we do not settle back into our familiar habits but instead, choose to forge a brighter path forward.

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

Temple Emanu El is inviting other congregations from the Interfaith Group Against Hate and the members of Antioch Baptist ...

When we immerse ourselves in water, we are forced to recognize our existential estrangement from the physical universe.

Nothing can be further from the truth: the foundation of a moral and meaningful life is that I can be real and "naked" with G ...

There are six remembrances found in the Torah – remembering the Shabbat and keeping it holy, the exodus from Egypt, the ...

The year was 1975. It had been 200 years since the nation's founding and more than a century since the end of the Civil War.