Writing in Conversation with the Torah

Authors Sally Wiener Grotta and Judith Sarah Schmidt discuss…

Coming in February: Daughters of Eve

When you think of Eve and Lilith, Sarah and Hagar, Rebekah, Esther,…

Coming in 2024: Blessing from Broken

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One of the first images taken by humans of the whole Earth. Photographed by the crew of Apollo 8 (probably by Bill Anders) the photo shows the Earth at a distance of about 30,000 km. South is at the top, with South America visible at the covering the top half center, with Africa entering into shadow. North America is in the bottom right.

Ki Teitzei: On the Health of Our Planet (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19)

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Chasing Justice, Outside and In

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Va’etchanan: Whitney Houston, Camp, and Building our Future

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If We Build: D’varim 5783

  It’s Shabbat Hazon, the “Shabbat of Vision.”…

Matot-Masei: And All for One: Building the Spiritual Ethic to Join “Another’s” Cause

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sketch from 19th century of the daughters of Zelophehad pleading to Moses

Pinchas: Demanding rights, then and now (Numbers 25:10- 30:1)

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Tissot's the Death of Aaron shows two men of antiquity preparing a third man, the priest Aaron (Moses' brother), for burial

Hukkat-Balak: Who Is Responsible for Burying the Dead?

Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic…