The loss of such a friend is heartbreaking. The betrayal by such a friend is devastating. The Jewish world is now struggling ...

Miriam’s death in this week’s double parashah is a chance to reflect on her remarkable life and her role in Jewish history.

Moses is the undisputed protagonist of the great epic of the Jewish people as they are delivered from the bondage of Egypt and led by him to the threshold of the land that the Lord has promised to ...

The community moves from loss to demand, from burial to crisis. Moses, her brother, has no space to grieve before he is asked ...

On the shores of the Red Sea, Moses cried out to God on behalf of the Israelites as they fled Egypt, trapped between the sea before them and the Egyptian army behind them. God answered him: “Why do ...

Yocheved, the mother of Moses, merits nary a mention after her son grows up. When Israel’s future liberator was born, she daringly defied Pharoah by hiding the boy in a basket of reeds set upon the ...