The Sublimity of Insincerity Thoughts on Torah Portion Vayechi 2024 ©Rabbi Mordecai Finley There is one passage in our Torah ...

A Chassidic leader demands inwardness. Not only does he impart strength to his followers through his teachings and ...

The Persian Torah rescued from the LA fire that engulfed the Pasadena Jewish Center is a powerful emblem for persistence and ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

Among the thousands of structures burned in this week's Los Angeles County Wildfires is the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center, ...

On account of their merits and the merit of their actions, we have the strength to stand against those who seek to harm us in ...

FREEDOM AND OPPRESSION are at the very heart of the Torah portions from Exodus that Jews will read in the next few weeks. It’s a bit jarring to read these portions in January because they tell the ...

The suspect, who arrived in Israel from Colombia on a tourist visa and never left, would attend synagogue dressed in haredi ...

This question, of the conflict between the power of a group (nation) and that of the individual belonging to it, has been ...

Some blessings are more glowing than others, but one thing is utterly clear in his words – Ya’akov knows his children and ...

Money raised will pay for a handwritten Torah scroll in honor of Omer Neutra, an Israeli soldier from Plainview killed in the ...

And Joseph bound the sons of Israel by an oath to bind their descendants by an oath, saying, “God will surely remember you ...