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Dec 23, 2025, 5:01 PM

A Response to the Chanukah Massacre at Bondi Beach: Miketz 5786

Terrorism is about more than injuring and killing people, it’s about creating a fear that forces people to alter their lives for the worse. Days after the October 7 attacks, Nassau County executive, Bruce Blakeman invited the county's rabbis...

Reuven Chaim Klein

Dec 20, 2025, 10:50 PM

Bringing Meaning to Light – pitaron and pesher

Throughout the stories of Joseph interpreting the dreams of the Pharaoh’s butler and baker, and then of the Pharaoh himself, the Bible uses the verb poter (“interpreting”) and the noun pitaron (“interpretation,” “meaning,” or “solution”) exactly fourteen times (Gen. 40–41). These terms are...

Dec 20, 2025, 10:48 PM

The Teachings of Parashah Miketz

The Teachings of Parashah Miketz Parashah Miketz is not a story of redemption, nor of success. It is a study in transformation under reversal: what happens to a human being when the conditions that shaped them are violently replaced by...

Richard Diamond

Dec 19, 2025, 9:52 PM

What Happened to “WE”?

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Israel knows how to be “for ourselves.” But Hillel warned us about the next step: If I am only for myself, what am I? Israel was born in a time when “WE” wasn’t a slogan. It was a survival system. The...

Shamai Leibowitz

Dec 19, 2025, 6:03 PM

How Hanukkah Was Hijacked—and Why It Matters

After the Maccabees won their war against the Syrian-Greeks and the Hellenists, the Hasmonean dynasty they founded eventually collapsed into a corrupt, expansionist regime—a historical warning for certain countries today. Centuries ago, the Sages foresaw this danger. When they codified Chanukah, they...

Dec 19, 2025, 5:53 PM

Marat Machpela - Chevron

Day 6 · Chanukah 2025 Lighting six candles tonight stands for, in my view: Abraham & SarahYitzchak & RivkaYaacov & Leah “Gabriel,” you might ask, “have you forgotten Rachel, the wife of Yaacov?” God forbid. I haven’t. And yet, at Ma’arat HaMachpela, it is...

Karen Reiss Medwed

Dec 19, 2025, 5:46 PM

“What Is Hanukkah? Light in an Age of Fear” On this Shabbat, we stand at a rare and layered intersection of sacred time. It is Shabbat Miketz, when Joseph moves from the darkness of the pit and the prison toward power and...

Dec 19, 2025, 5:37 PM

The One Who Does Not Forget

Parashah Miketz–The One Who Does Not Forget The final pulse of Vayeshev is a clean cut. “He did not remember him.” No drama. No explanation. Just that. The righteous one is buried twice: in a pit of earth and in a pit of...

William Hamilton

Dec 19, 2025, 4:02 PM

“Keep showing us the beauty of your Jewish traditions” our State Rep told us at last Sunday evening’s Hanukkah lighting. Tommy Vitolo then added, “From the perspective of someone who is not Jewish, I hope you’ll share the moral-beauty...

Dec 19, 2025, 9:30 AM

Disguise (Mikketz, Covenant & Conversation)

Joseph is now the ruler of Egypt. The famine he predicted has come to pass. It extends beyond Egypt to the land of Canaan. Seeking to buy food, Joseph’s brothers make the journey to Egypt. They arrive at the...

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