Rethinking how Jewishness is portrayed in the movies.
This week’s Torah portion, Parshat Nasso relates the ancient and problematic practice of Sotah, in which a husband who experiences a “fit of jealousy” and is “wrought up” (Numbers 5:14) that his wife might have been unfaithful to him can engage a ritual practice to discern whether she is innocent of wrongdoing.
Why should it take a lawsuit to get a Jewish camp to be aware of the Jewish laws on how to treat those who have been raped?
The strange, wonderful, and beautiful, thing about the Torah is that it always stands ready.
The end of a show that captured the full range of human emotions.
Prayer does not absolve us from seeing the world as broken and recognizing that human beings are indeed capable of terrible acts.
They say that when a child is born, a mother is too. But what searchable ritual could possibly prepare me for such a thing?
