by admin | May 24, 2017 | American, Weekly Email
Rabbi Unterman is the rabbi of Young Israel of East Brunswick in East Brunswick, NJ. In Ruth – From Alienation to Monarchy (Maggid Books, 2015), Dr. Yael Zeigler highlights the centrality of namefulness and namelessness in the book of Ruth. Among other examples she...
by admin | May 9, 2017 | Weekly Email
The Torah portion of Kedoshim gathers together all those people in our surroundings who would seem to be “transparent” and gives us a specific commandment about each one. We must not put a stumbling block in front of a blind person or curse a deaf person, we must set...
by admin | May 9, 2017 | Weekly Email
“Observe My decrees and My laws, which man will perform so that he will live by them” [Vayikra 18:5]. “Be holy, for I am holy” [Vayikra 19:2]. The ability of man, a physical creature, to reach for and to create holiness is not obvious. A number of commentators have...
by admin | May 9, 2017 | Weekly Email
They are buried in a long line that is not very straight. These people were killed by artillery fire in Jerusalem in 5708. This week I passed by the graves on Har Hamenuchot, in Jerusalem, and I tried to imagine their funerals. At the time, Jerusalem was under siege...
