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Parashat Beha’alotcha “When You Step Up” We are in the season of graduations!!! Middle schoolers get to step into the big leagues, high schoolers are going to find out how…

Parashat Nasso “Elevate” In Parashat Nasso, this week’s Torah portion, two seemingly unrelated topics appear right next to one another. The first topic is about giving gifts to the priests…

Parashat Bamidbar “In the Desert” The Jewish people are deeply intertwined with place, yet we exist in a liminal space between identities – people of the land, people of Jerusalem…

Shavuot is the holiday where we celebrate receiving the Torah – in Hebrew, Shavuot is also often called Zeman Matan Torah, the Time of the Giving of Torah. It may…

Parashat Behar-Bechukotai This week’s double Torah portion concludes the book of Leviticus, the middle of the Five Books of Moses. Traditionally, after the Torah reader chants the final verse of…

Parashat Emor “Say” Abraham Wald, a renowned mathematician, realized a grievous error when engineers studied the bullet patterns of the planes decommissioned during WWII. They focused on where those planes…

Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim At the center of the Book of Leviticus we find this week’s parashah, Kedoshim, which begins with a command for the people to be holy: “You Shall…

Parashat Tazria-Metzora Several months ago, I embarked on the harrowing journey to find a new primary care provider. With some incredible luck I found a doctor accepting new patients and…

Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’Atzmaut The transition and observance between Yom HaZikaron (Remembrance of Fallen Soldiers) and Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Independence Day) is always filled with deep seated emotions and the…