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September 2025

September 29, 2025

Ha’azinu: To Be Witnessed

Parashat Ha’azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-52) By Gila Axelrod In Parashat Ha’azinu, Moses delivers a poetic final...

August 2025

August 04, 2025

All the Days and All the Nights

By Alyssa Coffey, Editor, 70 Faces Va’etchanan Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11 Parshat Va’etchanan begins from a place...

June 2025

June 23, 2025

Reading Korach in Times of Trouble

By Rabbi Jessica Spencer, Hebrew College Rabbinical School `24 If you opened this week’s Torah...

April 2025

April 08, 2025

Constrained Freedom

By Julia Spiegel, fourth year rabbinical student Parashat Tzav Leviticus 6:1-8:36 The right to free...

March 2025

March 26, 2025

Blessing the Work of Our Hands

By Jayce Koester, Hebrew College rabbinical student Parashat Pekudei Exodus 38:21-40:38 My spouse and I...

March 18, 2025

How the Work Begins

By Rabbi Frankie Sandmel Parashat Vayekhel (Exodus 35:1-38:20) There is no doubt that this year, 2025,...

March 03, 2025

People of the Story

Parashat Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10) By Adam Zemel Tetzaveh begins when God pauses dictating instructions for the Tabernacle...

February 2025

February 24, 2025

The Mishkan and Purim’s Insights for an Uncertain World

By Rabbi Daniel Klein, Hebrew College Rabbinical School '10 Parashat Terumah Exdodus 25:1-27:19 As we...

February 18, 2025

Do You Need a Reminder?

Parashat Mishpatim Exodus 21:1-24:18 Recently, I attended a cozy concert by one of my favorite...

February 11, 2025

A Whole People of Whole People

Parashat Yitro Exodus 18:1-20:23 One of my favorite Yiddish folk songs begins "un mir zaynen...

February 03, 2025

Armed with Hope

By Rabbi Max Edwards Parashat Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16) Every year as we sit around the...

January 2025

January 28, 2025

The Blessing of Uncertainty

By Rabbi Gita Karasov Parashat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16) One of the ways I like to...

January 14, 2025

Knowing Humanity

By Naomi Gurt Lind, Hebrew College rabbinical student Parashat Shmot Exodus 1:1-6:1 Some years ago,...

January 07, 2025

How to Live Amidst Alienation and Exile

Since the US election two months ago, and over the course of the devastating war...

January 02, 2025

The Patriarch who wasn’t a Patriarch

By Rabbi Michael Shire Parashat Va-Yiggash (Genesis 44:18-47:27) What makes a Patriarch a patriarch? What...

December 2024

December 23, 2024

The Truth that Sets us Apart

By Rabbi Becky Silverstein `14 (Parashat Miketz Genesis 41:1-44:17) A few weeks ago, I was in...

December 17, 2024

Success on Our Way; an Alternative to the Prosperity Gospel

By Rav Hazzan Ken Richmond, Hebrew College Rabbinical School '21 Parashat Vayeishev Genesis 37:1-40:23 As...

December 02, 2024

What the Sigma, Jacob?

By Rabbi Shira Shazeer '10, Hebrew College Rabbinical School Parashat Vayetzei Genesis 28:10-32:3 Working with...

November 2024

November 25, 2024

From Conflict to Creation: Rebecca’s Question and Our Own

Parashat Toldot Genesis 25:19-28:9 In this week’s Torah portion, we encounter Rebecca, our matriarch, in...

September 2024

September 18, 2024

Harvesting Simcha

Parashat Ki Tavo Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8 Parashat Ki Tavo outlines more of Moses’ instructions to the...

September 10, 2024

Sowing with Tears, Reaping with Shouts of Joy?

By Rav Rachel Adelman, Hebrew College Faculty Haftarat Ki Tetzei Isaiah 54:1-10 The recent events...

September 02, 2024

Amid the Toppling Towers

By Naomi Gurt Lind Parashat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) When I signed up to write a 70...

August 2024

August 27, 2024

When We’re Rested

By Julia Spiegel, Hebrew College Rabbinical Student Parashat Re’eh Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17 Two weeks ago, I...

August 19, 2024

On Attending to Rain

By Deborah Anstandig, Hebrew College Rabbinical Student Parashat Eikev Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25 It rained nearly every...

July 2024

July 29, 2024

Finding God in the Dark Places Along the Way

By Rabbi Daniel Klein '10 Parashat Maatot-Mas’ei Numbers 30:2-36:13 As we conclude the Book of...

July 23, 2024

Standing in the Breach

By Rabbi Steven Lewis, HC '11 Parashat Pinchas Numbers 25:10-30:1 "Is this a law of...

July 09, 2024

Out of the Depths I Called

Parashat Chukkat Numbers 19:1-22:1 Chukkat is a portion preoccupied with loss, limitation and attempts to...

July 01, 2024

The Lost Torah of Korach

By Matthew Schultz, Hebrew College rabbinical student Parashat Korach Numbers 16:1-18:32 כי כל־העדה כלם קדשים...

June 2024

June 25, 2024

Joshua’s spies and the “zonah” in Jericho

By Joshua Jacobson Haftarat Shelach Lecha (Joshua 2:1-24) We often make assumptions about people based...

June 18, 2024

Caring is Sharing

By Rev. Tom Reid Parashat Beha'alotcha Numbers 8:1-12:16 Being a person of faith is challenging...

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