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NYC Jews, welcome to the resistance — Abraham and us

We don’t run from history's twists and turns, but endure them, even defy them, especially when, like now, our known path has ...
The Torah portions Lech Lecha, Vayera, and Hayei Sarah form a trilogy of leadership, from vision to continuity. Abraham and ...
Abraham’s Home Hospitality Parshat Vayera begins with Abraham and Sarah’s hospitality to the three messengers of God, when ...
Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster explains the Jewish interpretation of Abraham and God's covenant promise.
This Shabbat, as we read of Abraham’s test, we remember our own. We remember Itay – a son of our community, a soldier of ...
The progression of leadership in Genesis indicates God wants leaders who don’t just “follow orders” but who evaluate and even ...
On Rosh Hashanah, we read these words not as a quaint miracle of the past, but as the very essence of the day. Rashi reminds us that Isaac was born exactly at the time promised — down to the second.