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Parshat Vayeshev To speak out without shaming the Other by Cynthia Hoffman on Friday December 11, 2009 25 Kislev 5770 Genesis 37:1 – 40:23 Parshat Vayeshev is loaded with famous bible stories that also get picked up in pop culture. Vayeshev contains: Joseph and his [Technicolor Dream] tunic; Joseph…
Read moreParashat Shof’tim The Holiness of Judgment and the Power of Witnessing by Karen Erlichman on Friday September 05, 2008 5 Elul 5768 [reprint] Deuteronomy 16:18 – 21:9 This Torah Queery was originally published on Thursday August 16, 2007 Baruch Dayan Emet This is an abbreviated version of the blessing…
Read moreParashat B’midbar The Gift of the Wilderness by Alex Carter on Friday May 30, 2008 25 Iyar 5768 Numbers 1:1 – 4:20 This week’s parsha, B’midbar, begins, as many parshiyot begin, with the words, “G-d spoke to Moses…” But this week, it specifies that G-d spoke to Moses “in…
Read moreParashat Yitro The First Commandment Revisited by Rabbi Seth Goren on Saturday January 26, 2008 19 Sh’vat 5768 Exodus 18:1 – 20:23 The giving of the Ten Commandments is a vividly spectacular event. The combination of lightening, thunder, smoke and blaring horns at Mount Sinai echo and flash across time,…
Read moreParashat Lech Lecha The Unknown Path by Rabbi James Greene on Saturday October 16, 2010 8 Cheshvan 5771 Genesis 12:1 – 17:27 This week’s parshah, Leh Leha, tells the story of Avram and Sarai and their journey into the unknown path. After hearing a call from God telling them to…
Read moreParashat Be’Ha’alotekha Singing for Our Lives by Gregg Drinkwater on Friday June 16, 2006 20 Sivan 5766 Numbers 8:1-12:16, Shabbat I’ve always harbored a suspicion that Moses’ sister, the feminist icon Miriam, was a lesbian. Or that at least if she lived today, she would have fit in swimmingly in…
Read moreParashat Re’eh Silencing Abominable Language by Rabbi Seth Goren on Saturday August 11, 2007 27 Av, 5767 Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17,Shabbat, 27th of Av, 5767 I have to confess that this week’s portion, almost through no fault of its own, kind of annoys me. It’s not the command to put false prophets…
Read moreParashat Shemot Saving Our Youth from the Crocodiles by Martin Rawlings-Fein on Friday January 08, 2010 Tevet 22 5770 Exodus 1:1 – 6:1 Shemot, or Names, is this weeks Parashat and in it we follow the life of Moses through birth, exile, and his eventual return to Egypt. We begin…
Read moreParashat Acharei Mot Returning to Mitzrayim by Rachel Barenblat on Saturday April 19, 2008 14 Nisan 5768 Leviticus 16:1 – 18:30, Pesach Baseball season recently started up again. For me, the beginning of baseball season is the appropriate time to read Acharei Mot, the knuckleball of all Torah portions. Like…
Read moreParashat B’midbar “Queer” Tribes: Finding a Place for Alternative Families [REPRINT] by Gregg Drinkwater on Friday May 22, 2009 28 Iyar, 5769 Numbers 1:1-4:20 [This Torah Queery was originally published in May, 2006.] The Book of Numbers opens with the voice of God, commanding Moses to conduct a census of…
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