From A Pastoral Garden to the Bustling Jerusalem
The story of humanity begins in a garden. The Garden of Eden is a pastoral setting, filled with rivers and…
Read MoreThe story of humanity begins in a garden. The Garden of Eden is a pastoral setting, filled with rivers and…
Read MoreEver since the Arab occupation of Jerusalem began in the early part of the 20th Century, the Jewish population understood…
Read MoreThe mitzvah of Lulav is intimately bound with Yerushalayim. The Talmud records that outside the Beit HaMikdash there is only…
Read MoreOne section of this week’s parsha that is particularly resonant this year is the commandment of Hakhel. During the Sukkot…
Read MoreThis week’s parsha begins with a covenant being created between God and the Jewish people. After telling the Jewish people…
Read MoreIn our Haftorah, the prophet Yeshayahu turns to Yerushalayim and tells her to grow: “Enlarge the site of your tent,…
Read MoreOn August 14th a lone gun man shot 8 pedestrians just outside of Jerusalem’s Old City and then fled into…
Read MoreAn Emirati political scientist has publicly come out in support of the Jerusalem Mufti’s Fatwa against muslims visiting Jerusalem through…
Read MoreOne of the most iconic and stirring kinnot is “Eli Tzion.” The opening line and refrain reads as follows: “Wail…
Read MoreOur parsha opens with a list of the forty-two stations at which the Jewish people stopped in their journey through…
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