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“Come to Pharaoh! For I have made his heart and the heart of his servants heavy-with-stubbornness, in order that I

  This week we honor and celebrate the contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and we read about our

  “Esau ran to meet him, he embraced him, flung himself upon his neck, and kissed him. And they wept.”

  Untold stories abound within Jewish tradition. As we read through the Torah we find gaps in the text that

  With Thanksgiving upon us, many of us will gather with family or friends, or aim for some quiet time

  “Fetch a morsel of bread…” – from here [we learn that] the righteous say little and do much, and

An end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with wrongdoing…here, I am about to

Jews feel like Judaism asks a lot from us – and with 613 commandments in the Torah, that seems to

This week’s double-portion of Torah reading covers a lot of ground, almost literally, in that by the end it summarizes

  One of the most important linchpins of Judaism appears in this week’s Torah reading – the protest of the