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Parashat Chukat contains a mysterious passage that focuses upon a well: “From there to the well, that is the well of which Hashem said to Moshe, Gather the people, and I will give them water. …

Join Rav Natan of Congregation Etz Hayim and his colleagues, Daneel Shaechter and Rabbi Juan Mejia, in a conversation about a unique phenomenon that is happening all over the world, in particular in the Americas. Emergent Jewish Communities are communities in which most or all members were not raised in the Jewish tradition but are

MK Simcha Rothman wants the Knesset to reassert its primacy over the Supreme Court, and hand power back to the people

From the blog of Arie E. Pelta at The Times of Israel

They may not have military forces to mobilize or meaningful sanctions to impose.

This post is dedicated wholeheartedly to the safe and victorious return of our חיילים.  G!dly timing of historic events, good and bad, beg us to review time and time again our purpose and trajectory, through both physical and spiritual translations.  I read this incredible story on social media: “Last night, at the time of the sirens, I sat in a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv, with ten Americans in Israel on a program for the year. They were twenty years old, boys and girls.  After a few o...

“In a settled area it is prohibited; in the desert it is permitted.” If I have learned anything from the past year of reading the Talmud, it is that I have been born into a very difficult heritage and the punishment for breaking the multitude of rules can be quite severe. I understand that the Rabbis at the time of the Talmud had created guardrails around the Torah in order to ensure its laws were followed through the creation of stringencies. But if someone strayed, the consequences could ...