8+ hour, 32+ min ago  (1250+ words) Rabbi Elchanan Shoff Always knew he would create his own yeshiva. After introducing The New Yeshiva High School of Los Angeles to Journal readers last week, he made a pledge: "We are going to create an institution packed with love…...

8+ hour, 34+ min ago  (1067+ words) In his 13th year as leader of Congregation Beis Knesses of Los Angeles, which he founded, Rabbi Elchanan Shoff is launching a major new project, a yeshiva on Robertson Boulevard. "We have been overwhelmed by the positive feedback," he said of…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (725+ words) In the Torah, as the Children of Israel are liberated from Egypt, they face two different kinds of freedom: Physical freedom and spiritual freedom. Physically, no longer wearing chains around their ankles. Spiritually, no longer chained to another's psychological terror....

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (705+ words) Ki Tisa " When you take (Exodus 30:1134:35) When all of the people are counted All of them, not just the ones who look like us. When all of them have their names scribbled in our ledger, so it's clear we're in…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (1119+ words) One verse, five voices. Edited by Nina Litvak and Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist "You will not be able to see My face, for man shall not see Me and live." Spiritual Leader / Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Southfield Mich. A shared…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (649+ words) For thousands of years, Jews have read Exodus 12:12s explanation of Gods punishment of the slave-driving Egyptians, " and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord." But it is only recently that the full weight…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (1526+ words) According to Adam Louis-Klein, Jew-hatred cloaked as political expression in the form of antizionism is a hate movement and should not be accepted. The founder of Movement Against Antizionism told The Journal that Jews have been on the defensive and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (713+ words) Tetzaveh " command (Exodus 27:2030:10) I don't like to take commands but my bosses like to issue them and my mortgage likes to get paid. I say I don't like to take commands, but I'm a rule follower No one jaywalks on…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (642+ words) The Torah begins its description of lighting the lamps in the Tabernacle with the word "T'tzavveh" " "you shall command" or "you shall instruct." That opening word echoes another familiar word: mitzvah. How do we understand what it means to do…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (918+ words) One verse, five voices. Edited by Nina Litvak and Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist They will thereby recognize that I am God, their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I may abide in their midst; I am…...