Tag: jewish history

Crossing the Sea (Beshallach 5780)

3rd February 2020

Download the accompanying Family Edition here! Our parsha begins with an apparently simple proposition: When Pharaoh let the people … Read more

27th January 2020

Download the accompanying Family Edition here! Sometimes others know us better than we know ourselves. In the year … Read more

20th January 2020

Download the accompanying Family Edition here! In this week’s parsha, before even the first plague has struck Egypt, … Read more

13th January 2020

Download the accompanying Family Edition here! Some measure of the radicalism that is introduced into the world by … Read more

19th December 2019

History itself has a history. Our perspectives shift over time, and some moments may only seem meaningful in retrospect. … Read more

23rd September 2019

When I was a student at university in the late 1960s – the era of student protests, psychedelic drugs, and … Read more

16th September 2019

Howard Gardner, professor of education and psychology at Harvard University, is one of the great minds of our time. He … Read more

18th February 2019

Download the accompanying Family Edition here. It is a moment of the very highest drama. The Israelites, a mere … Read more

21st January 2019

The revelation at Mount Sinai – the central episode not only of the parsha of Yitro, but of Judaism … Read more

14th January 2019

The splitting of the Reed Sea is engraved in Jewish memory. We recite it daily during the morning service, … Read more