Ariana Silverman is the Rabbi of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, the last freestanding synagogue in the City of Detroit. Raised in Chicago, she received her undergraduate degree from Harvard ...

Rabbi Dan Moskovitz is the Senior Rabbi of Temple Sholom in Vancouver BC. An American now living in Canada since 2013. He is the chair of Reform Rabbis of Canada. Rabbi Moskovitz is the author of The ...

Every so often, I come across a sentence of another person’s writing which expresses one of my own thoughts in a language far superior to my own. Over the years, I have contemplated and written about ...

The Book of Numbers concludes with a description of the places where the Children of Israel encamped during their 40 years of wandering in the desert. The Torah portion opens with the words, “These ...

Summertime Torah portions get short shrift. They aren’t exactly breezy beach reading and many concern Moses’ repetition of the Israelites journey from Egypt to the doorstep of the Promised Land. But, ...

In the Torah reading of Matot, we’re informed how the tribes of Gad and Reuben were blessed with a significant wealth of flocks. The leadership of those tribes demanded of Moses to let them stay on ...