Emor 5783 – Medical Assistance in Dying
Saving lives is the supreme Jewish value. We are told we can violate almost any commandment in order to save
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Leviticus (Vayikra)
Shemini 5780 – Coping with a Pandemic
I can’t decide whether I’m getting used to our new coronavirus reality, or whether the sense of “unrealness” is getting
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Vayikra 5780 – Sacrifices and Coronavirus
We’re all being called on to make sacrifices in the time of coronavirus.
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Metzora 5779 – Home Demolitions
The Israeli government has a controversial policy of destroying the family homes of terrorists, which the government claims serves as
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Emor 5778 – Should Conservative Rabbis Officiate at Intermarriages?
They shall not marry a woman defiled by harlotry, nor shall they marry one divorced from her husband. For they
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Tazria-Metzora 5778: The Power of Words
This week’s Torah portion, Tazria-Metzora, opens with a discussion of the ritual impurity connected with child-bearing. After giving birth a
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