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Light unto the Nations
Tomorrow night the Jewish world will light the first candle of Hanukkah, a holiday celebrating…
Parashat Vayishlach (Genesis 32:4-36:43)
“God said to him, “You whose name is Jacob, you shall be called Jacob no…
Parashat Vayeitzei (Genesis 28:10-32:3)
“And Jacob went out from Beer Sheva and went toward Haran.” (Genesis 28:10) Why are…
Highest ranking Jewish military chaplain to head JWB Jewish Chaplains Council
For immediate release Rabbi Irving Elson, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and…
Parashat Toldot (Genesis 25:19-28:8)
“But the children struggled in her womb , and she said, ”If so, why do…
Parashat Chayei Sarah (Genesis 23:1-25:18)
“They called Rebecca and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” And she…
Parashat Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24)
“Avraham journeyed from there to the land of the Negev, and he lived between Kadesh…
Parashat Lekh Lekha (Genesis 12:1-17:27)
“And Abram moved his tent and came an dwelled in the plains of Mamrei which…
A View From Jerusalem - November 2016
New Beginnings Today, exactly 76 years ago, on the 10th of the Hebrew month of…
Parashat Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32)
“Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, waters upon the earth.” (Genesis…