Moses

Was Netanyahu chosen by God, or judged too harshly by man? - opinion

There was a young man who was chosen. He did not choose himself. In fact, he had no plans to enter politics and no ambition to become prime minister. Yet God often chooses people who never expect it.

Israeli cabinet minister and former military chief Gadi Eisenkot is consoled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he attends the funeral of his son Gal Meir Eisenkot, 25, an Israeli solider, who was killed in northern Gaza during the ground operation by Israel's military in Gaza.
Meira Sohlberg, wife of Supreme Court Deputy President Noam Sohlberg, reacts to the attack by haredi protesters on their Alon Shvut home, June 3.

Parashat Korah: Misreading intentions

 The Grapes of Canaan by James Tissot (circa 1900). Although the 12 spies brought back a cluster of grapes so large that it took two men to carry it, only two of the 12 brought back a good report of the land.

Joshua's spies chose faith over fear - can Israel do the same?

THE PARTING of the Red Sea during the Jewish nation’s escape from Egypt, an illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company

A different mind, a shared covenant - opinion


Parashat Va’eira: Fact-checking

The small act of improving Moses’s speaking abilities would have gone a long way toward improving his ambitious agenda, yet God preserved Moses’s speech impediment.

 FEWER BULLHORNS, more introspection.

The Jewish leaders leading the Jewish people - then and now - opinion

Living in modern Israel is like living in a real-time ongoing Talmudic dispute.

 RIME MINISTER Yair Lapid arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem

Rosh Hashanah: ‘For my sake the world was created’

Each individual has the power and potential to change the world. Indeed, throughout Jewish history there were many individuals who literally changed the course of Jewish history.

 YOU – THE reason the world exists.

What are the Ten Commandments in the Bible? - explainer

The Ten Commandments have a central place in Judaism and Jewish history, given by God and Moses at Mount Sinai. Here's what you need to know about them.

 Moses and Aaron with the 10 Commandments (illustrative).

Parashat Pinchas: Four comments on leadership

Humility, dedication to the nation’s needs, tolerance and taking responsibility are the traits of an ideal leader, as Rashi taught us based on the words of the Torah.

 MOSES ASKS God to appoints a new leader for the nation so they ‘will not be like sheep without a shepherd.’

Passover 2022: A Ukraine Chabad rabbi's Exodus - opinion

How can matzah, made from the most simplistic of ingredients, be intertwined so profoundly with our faith and heritage?

 RABBI YOSSI GLICK accompanies two girls from the Chabad Ukraine Orphanage on a plane from Romania to Israel following their 22-hour train journey to Romania.

Parashat Vayikra: Every person has a name

The way that God turns to Moses teaches us how to behave in our own relationships.

 SCRIBES FINISH writing a Torah scroll.

Jews of Egypt, Europe were bound by mental enslavement - opinion

The Hebrews in Egypt during Moses’s time, and the Jews in Europe during Herzl’s time, failed to envision the path to freedom.

 Strawberry Fields, New York City.

From Moses to Herzl: Acquiring the knowledge in front of your eyes

Internalizing the lessons from Moses’s exodus, Herzl understood that transformations need to happen gradually – he referred to those 40 years in the desert as “education through migration.”

 Knowledge is there – we need to see it.

Lifting the veil: Meet Dorothy Tiano Melvin

“I felt in bondage to depression over my mother’s death, and I felt I needed to break those bonds.”

 Dorothy (Rafaelah) Tiano Melvin, 70, from Los Angeles to Safed, 2020