Archives: Religious School
Dan Has Questions About Our First Ancestors – Parshat Lech Lecha
Dan Has Questions About Our First Ancestors: Parshat Lech Lecha At the end of last week’s Parshah, we were told of the many generations descended […]
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Dan Has A Flood Of Questions: Parshat Noach
The story of Noah is, as with the story of creation we studied last week, not a scientific story, but an important story nonetheless.
ReadHebrew Word of the Month – Teshuvah
Our Hebrew word of the month is: תְּשוּבָה Teshuvah Teshuvah literally means “return”, but is usually translated “repentance”. Every human being is created in the […]
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One Minute Torah – Ki Tavo 2019
When Immigration Enforcement officers pick-up people for deportation, they move them quickly to a distant facility.
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One Minute Torah – Matot Masei 5779
This week’s One Minute Torah is from the archives. I did my PhD in the Biology Department of MIT. It was an intense place, with […]
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One Minute Torah – Yes! to Identity
This week’s One Minute Torah is from the archives. When I arrived home yesterday, Janae, our children’s nanny, announced: “Yaara defended me at the park […]
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One Minute Torah – Korach and Democracy
I wish every voter in America would read How Democracies Die, by political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. I especially wish those with perspectives […]
ReadOne Minute Torah – Bamidbar 5779
The book of Numbers opens with a second census of the Israelite people. “Out of love for them, God counts them regularly,” explains the great […]
ReadOne Minute Torah – B’chukotai 5779
This week’s One Minute Torah is from the archives. Our family lived in Jerusalem in 2010-11. I had the blissful experience of studying at the […]
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