Moses

You don’t have to be Moses: This generation must rise to lead in a time of war - opinion

Each and every one of us should rise to the occasion and seek justice, seek victory, seek fulfillment for this amazing and miraculous country of which we are a part.

You don't have to be superhuman to change history.
Missing IAF navigator Ron Arad in captivity after his jet went down in Lebanon in 1986

Israel never stops bringing its soldiers home - opinion

Taking cover in Tel Aviv, March 1.

Parashat Ki Tisa: Fear and the choice of courage

Margaret Malka Rawicz sits with a Bedouin lady who took her to tend sheep in Sinai Desert.

Walking the Exodus: One woman's journey through the desert Moses crossed


Parashat Devarim: The values that give us the right to exist

The role of a judge is so sensitive and significant, there is no room for mediocrity.

Judge's gavel, illustrative

Parashat Korach: Which side to choose?

How are we to know, in situations we encounter in our lives, how to make the right choices?

WE SEE money-hungry traitors versus a devoted and incorruptible leader. But when the story was unfolding, this was not clear.

Parasha and Herzl: The Golden Calf reappears

Forty days without Moses is a long time.

‘WHILE THE Golden Calf surprised Moses, Herzl was ready to confront it.’

Moses’s hand-to-mouth life

The moral trajectory of Moses, his development as a man and leader, can be traced in the ongoing struggle between his mighty hand and his slow tongue

HIS FATAL error: ‘Moses Striking the Rock,’ Jacopo Tintoretto, 1563

Parashat Dvarim: Love of fellow Jews and the Torah

Being a Jew is undoubtedly an obligation... but we mustn’t see Judaism as a heavy burden.

IMPERIAL STATE crown of the United Kingdom

PARASHAT RE’EH: Facing idolatry

Even after idolatry seemingly disappeared from our lives – we see that it actually hasn’t

REVELERS SURROUND a statue of Hindu god Ganesh – known as a ‘remover of obstacles’ and god of beginnings – during a contemporary festival.

PARASHAT DEVARIM: The right way to study Torah

The Torah learner is a full partner in the creation.

The right way to study Torah

Book review: An uncompromising Bible translation

Robert Altar pushes back against modern translations, which he thinks interpret too much and translate too little.

THE KING James Bible.

A story with two endings

This week’s parasha, Chukat, is an important one for the nation as it finally moves toward entry into the Land of Israel.

‘JEPHTE AND his daugher,’ tapestry by Jan Aerts, 1630.

Biblical holiday of Pesach Sheni celebrates second chances

Those who were on a long journey or declared ritually impure could partake of the Passover holiday one month later, according to the Bible. Today, Second Passovers is still commemorated.

Baking matzah for the Passover holiday at the Meir Moshe Levy Synagogue in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem, April 11, 2019