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a 19th century painting of the scene
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Emerging from Covid is our parting-of-the-Red-Sea moment

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg April 2, 2021April 1, 2021
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At a loss after my rabbi said I’m not allowed to read Torah

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler April 1, 2021
Photo of a chocolate cake with candles that spell out "Happy Birthday"
Posted inTorah

Vayikra is bad for birthday cakes, but good for life guidance

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf March 19, 2021March 18, 2021
Detail from an illustration in "Figures de la Bible" (1728) shows the two cherubim facing each other on top of the ark.
Posted inTorah

Here it is, a Divine truth: See the good in Jews you don’t agree with

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg March 12, 2021March 12, 2021
Rabbi Shais Rishon speaks at a rally in New York City, Jan. 2020. (Photo/JTA-Gili Getz)
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Rabbi Shais Rishon, an Orthodox anti-racism advocate, is turning his gaze to Jewish texts

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA March 8, 2021
The Golden Calf, as seen in the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments."
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Sinai should’ve been all ecstasy. Then the Golden Calf happened. What went wrong?

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen March 5, 2021March 4, 2021
(Photo/Wikimedia-Olaf.herfurth CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inTorah

Your Shabbat table is magic. No, really. The rabbis said so.

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan February 26, 2021February 25, 2021
“Moses and Joshua Bowing Before the Ark” by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inTorah

The power and the mystery of the cherubim, explained

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon February 19, 2021February 18, 2021
Illustration of a donkey by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649.
Posted inTorah

Rise above the trap of hating or blowing off ‘the other’

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg February 12, 2021
Police use tear gas around the Capitol building where pro-Trump supporters breached the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Lev Radin-Pacific Press-LightRocket via Getty Images)
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‘Totalitarian’ school renaming; Equating twerps with Nazis; Enjoy your plastic straws!

by J. Readers February 5, 2021February 5, 2021

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