In the final scene of “The Graduate,” as the giddy runaway lovers Elaine and Benjamin take their seats at the back of a bus, we are plunged into a moment of sudden stillness that interrupts the ...

Indeed, our haftarah does something remarkable: It names names. Not just heroes but absentees. Not just those who fought but those who consciously chose not to. After Israel’s defeat of the Canaanite ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Barry Gelman, Rabbi of United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston. Rabbi Gelman received his bachelors and masters from Yeshiva University and Rabbinic Ordination from the ...

During the 40 years of the Israelites’ wanderings in the desert, from the Exodus from Egypt to the arrival in the Land of Israel, the nation experienced extraordinary and unique divine kindness, as ...

Parshat Beshalach contains the final piece of the epic culmination of the redemption from Egypt-the Exodus would come to its eternal conclusion with the splitting of the sea and the drowning of the ...

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Against all conceivable odds, the tyrannical Egyptian Empire is brought down to its knees by The Ten Plagues and Pharoah finally tells Moses that the Jewish slaves are free to go worship God in the ...

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This week’s parsha opens with a very puzzling statement: God does not use the quickest route to bring the Israelites to their land, lest it lead to a desire to return to Egypt. Commentators argue ...

“Where is God”? asked Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, one of the great chassidic masters. “Everywhere,” replied his students. “No, my children,” he responded, “God is not everywhere, but only where you let ...