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Apr 20, 20221 min read

Acting Assistant Secretary Lempert’s Travel to Jordan, Israel, Judea and Samaria, and Egypt

Office of the Spokesperson Acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Yael Lempert will travel to Jordan, Israel, Judea and...

Apr 15, 20226 min read

Real Freedom

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen America is obsessed with slavery and its ramifications and rightly so. But it is less concerned with the idea of...

Apr 14, 20224 min read

Don't Let the Seder be a Bore

Pesach 2022 by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The text of the Hagadah that we use today, goes back a thousand years although its origins are...

Apr 7, 20224 min read

Shabbat Metzora and Shabbat HaGadol

Leviticus 14-15:33 - A Special Shabbat by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The Shabbat before Pesach is called Shabbat HaGadol, the greatest or very...

Apr 1, 20225 min read

Mazal

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen I was reading the Roman historian Suetonius (around 69-122 CE) on the twelve Roman Caesars, and I came across this,...

Mar 31, 20224 min read

Shabbat Tazria

Rosh Hodesh Nisan - Leviticus 12-14 Purity by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Having dealt with the sacrificial system and its ceremonials, the Torah...

Mar 24, 20224 min read

Shabbat Shmini

Parshat Parah and Mevarchin Chodesh Nissan - Leviticus 9-11:47 We are how we eat! by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen This week in the reading from the...

Mar 18, 20223 min read

TSAV

Leviticus 6:1 to 8:37 - Eating Together by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen There are four obligations on Purim. To read the Megillah of Esther, to...

Mar 18, 20225 min read

Superstition

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen I have always said that what’s wrong with Judaism is not the ideas or the texts, but the people who misapply or...

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