Torah

In today’s challenging times, Israel can choose to be a rallying point for Jewish exceptionalism, rooted in a commitment to our heritage.

Women deserve to learn Torah and male gatekeepers do not get to decide whether women in Australia should have access to such courses or not. 

Korah seeks to seemingly democratize the nation by decrying Moses’s elitism and creates division by offering egalitarianism, but Moses sees what he's really after: Unbridled power.

Korah and his co-insurrectionists were expert orators who built their popularity by whipping up populist hysteria, exploiting national anxieties, and manipulating the angry mob.

By specifying that Korah's sons didn't die, the Torah warns us that demagogues live in every generation, including our own.

Moses’s perspective was different, and it is the perspective of Judaism from then until today: Action precedes experience.

This description of plants is a reflection of the way many of us experience plants — as alive, and in relationship to us. And it’s likely they reflect how our ancestors did too.

Never again will we be corpses in a valley of dry bones but a living, thriving people.