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In this last video of the series, Rabbi Stacey summarizes the roundtable discussions and key takeaways from “Tikkun Olam: Our Imperative to Heal the World”. Watch it here.

In this third video of the series, Rabbi Stacey summarizes the roundtable discussions and key takeaways from “The Centrality of Jewish Learning”. Watch it here.

In the second video of the series, Rabbi Stacey summarizes the roundtable discussions and key takeaways from ‘The WUPJ Advances the Progressive/Reform Approach to Judaism”. Watch it here.

Dr. Adva Guttman Tirosh’s sister is 27-year-old Tamar Guttman. She was at the Nova party when Hamas attacked. She has not been heard from since, and she is believed to have been kidnapped. Tamar has Crohn’s Disease, which needs constant treatment. Hear Adva recount the events of that dark day and the harrowing mission of […]

In this first video of the series, Rabbi Stacey summarizes the roundtable discussions and key takeaways from ‘The WUPJ as a Central Hub of a Worldwide Network”. Watch it here.

Matthew Levitt is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Hamas and Hezbollah and will join the WUPJ for a webinar on Tuesday, October 31st, to share his insights. Mr. Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow and director of the Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute. He wrote books on Hamas and […]

I was there with Joshua when we saw the Promised Land. I heard the other tribal leaders report back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community[1]. We all saw the same land, but what they saw was different. They did see a land flowing with milk and honey, just like what Joshua and I […]

When you hear that someone has lung cancer, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? I am embarrassed to admit it, but my mind leaps to, “Were they a smoker?” It is natural for us to want to “blame the victim.” I think that assigning blame is a self-defense mechanism. If we can identify the cause of the illness and we can avoid that behavior, then we hope we can protect ourselves from the same fate.

…following kosher guidelines for the holidays help us add another level of holiness to our lives. It connects us back to our history, to our people and ultimately to god.

For years I prayed with Rabbi Irwin Wise at Adath Israel Congregation in Cincinnati, and each year Rabbi Wise would implore his congregants to attend weekday yom tov services with the same joke. He reminded them that the people did not cross the Red Sea until the seventh day of Passover, and so “you have to come back” for weekday morning chol hamoed Passover services. After all, “You don’t want to get stuck in Egypt.” 

Parashat Tzav features one of the most significant moments in the book of Leviticus – the ordination of Aaron and his sons as priests. The ceremony includes the sacrifice of two rams – the first a burnt offering, and the second, a ram of ordination.

What book would you use to begin teaching Judaism to a child? According to tradition, it is none other than “Leviticus.” This middle book of our Pentateuch, Vayikra, is known as the Torat Kohanim, the Torah of the kohanim or priests, and of the Levites from which we get the English name of the book, Leviticus.