This week’s parashah (Torah portion) begins... Rabbi Jason Bonder Parashat Re’eh “Did you see anything?!” Rick Moranis asks in his role as Dark Helmet in the 1987 Mel Brooks classic, “Spaceballs.” “No ...

Given the right support and structures, Torah learning can truly be lifelong learning, beginning at the earliest ages of school. Why parshat hashavua (the weekly Torah portion)? The decision to teach ...

The Mongols. The Russian depredations in Ukraine. The list is long. Imagine that the background of our Torah portion is these maniacal tribes are winning their war against humanity and are closing ...

(1:2) This week’s Torah portion, “Noah,” tells of a time when the world was destroyed because these three pillars had collapsed. According to Kabbalah, these three pillars correspond to ...

Well-known Religious Zionist scholar Rabbi Alan Haber is convinced we are living in messianic times. Rabbi Haber wrote, “To me, it is clear that we are in stages of the messianic times already ...

(my translation) This Mishnah depicts an apocalyptic, catastrophic messianic period. Such depictions of the days of the Messiah are commonplace in the Talmud, Kabbalah, and Jewish literature ...

“How did things get this way?” is probably one of the first things that ancient human beings asked. Not most of them, for sure. Like today, most people have enough to do trying to figure out ...

John Lennon’s famous song Imagine envisions a world where unity is achieved by erasing national and religious divisions. According to the Torah, there was once a time when Lennon’s vision was ...

So did the other 350 residents of Israel’s only Messianic Jewish moshav. Sitting on a pine-covered ridge about ten miles west of Jerusalem, the Yad HaShmona community has lived in steady tension ...

There seems to be an emphasis on preparation in the parsha of Migdal Bavel (the Tower of Babel). “הבה נלבנה לבנים” – let’s get ready and make bricks, & הבה נבנה לנו ...

Included in the Avinu Malkeinu prayer are the following two petitions to Hashem: Our Father, our King, raise high the pride of Yisrael your nation Our Father, our King, raise high the pride of ...

Terach, Abraham’s father, is often viewed in the Midrash as an evil man and nothing more than an idol worshipper (Bereishit Rabbah 38:13). A review of the literal text indicates otherwise.