April 23, 1943, Warsaw Ghetto: “It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. One thing is clear, what happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans ran twice from the ghetto. One of our companies held out for 40 min...
The second sedra in Bamidbar is Naso, the longest and, for me, the most problematic sedra in the Torah. It has several themes relating to purity (or impurity). It starts with the census of the Levitical families for the tasks of ...
It was almost a whole year in advance that I was invited by Rabbi Sid Schwarz to join the faculty of a retreat for rabbinical students across the denominational spectrum, on the theme of “spirituality and social justice.” It f...
