brought with him a scaled-down Torah and did the first Torah reading outside of Earth. He also had a set of Jewish ritual items specially made for his trip, including a mezuzah with a Velcro strip ...

Developmentally, the text of the Torah is challenging for young children. The written text is not yet accessible to them because of their reading level, and even when read aloud, the language is often ...

At the end of the Book of Genesis, Jacob and his family of 70 souls leave Canaan and (im)migrate to Egypt. Note that they ...

Shemini Atzeret, or “The Eighth Day of Assembly,” is the eighth day of Sukkot and marks the beginning of Simchat Torah. Brandeis does not hold classes on Shmini Atzeret/ the first day of Simchat Torah ...

“Instead of a traditional Torah reading service or women’s tefillah [prayer] service or a partnership minyan service, we’ve seen a lot more… girls read, in part or the entire, Megillat ...

This week’s parsha is tailored to the times in which we are living. Fear of the unknown, “uncertainty,” has spun many into ...

The haftarah (reading from the Prophets) of this week’s Torah portion, Vayechi (“And he lived”), invites us to compare and contrast the last will and testament of King David with that of our ...