February 2, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk Read on for article This week’s Parsha is Yitro. Named after the non-Jewish father-in-law of Moses, the Parsha recounts the excitement and joy that Yitro feels when he finds out that the Jewish people have been redeemed from Egypt. Moshe is recorded kissing and happily greeting his father-in-law and […]
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You Can’t Choose Your Family – A poem for Parsha Vayeshev
December 11th, 2020 Awake Goy
And they took him and cast him into the pit I grew up without a siblingso never had the young impetusto throw mine into a pit. I say mine becausedecades into my existencea brother and sister came along. Plus the one I married into.Not quite the baker’s dozenthat Jacob produced but a lot to love […]
Rosner’s Torah Talk: Parsha Vayetze with Tzvia Rubens
November 27th, 2020 Awake Goy
Tzvia Rubens, of Hebrew Union in Ohio, is our guest this week, and we discuss Parshat Vayetze which begins when Jacob leaves Canaan and journeys to Charan. On the way, he goes to sleep and dreams of a ladder connecting heaven and earth, with angels climbing and descending on it. In Haran, Jacob works for his uncle Laban, […]