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 ...

Moses, the father of the nation, paved a path for generations to come: Nothing justifies an act of ingratitude. Ingratitude is never warranted in any situation. This Shabbat, we read two Torah ...

The agenda for daily Jewish learning touches the core of what it means to be a Jew, as well as a human being. In the finite act of study, we attempt to understand the infinite. In our double portion ...

There is a common thread running through many of the diverse subjects in our double Torah portion, Matot-Masei. Shortly before our ancestors enter the Land, thought must be given to communal ...

End of the week, the dark moon of a father’s comfort, midway through the three weeks of admonition, nine days before the spiritual nadir of the year, the Temple is about to be destroyed. No music, no ...

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 ...