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Oct 21, 2026, 9:53 AM

We Perfected the Pause and Forgot the Melacha

Every Friday afternoon, a remarkable thing happens across the Jewish world. Millions of people stop. We have made an art of it. The urn is filled and the hot plate is plugged in. The lights are on timers, the tissues...

Oct 16, 2026, 6:17 PM

Counting our blessings amidst the elections

I was intending to write about the upcoming elections, but didn't really have a unique angle to share. However I have recently been reading from 1st and 2nd Kings in the Tanakh, and there one gains a breadth of...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Oct 14, 2026, 3:24 PM

Save the raven!

We read about the raven (orev) in Parshat Noach (Breisheet 8:6-7): At the end of forty days, Noach opened the window of the ark which he made. He sent out the raven, and it went out to and fro until...

Chavi Eisenberg

Oct 8, 2026, 11:56 PM

Teaching the stories that disturb us

On difficult narratives in Tanakh and the responsibility of teaching them. This week, I taught a group of 18-year-old seminary students one of the most disturbing stories in all of Tanakh. Actually, I taught them two. We were learning about intertextuality,...

Oct 7, 2026, 8:20 PM

The Royal House of Kanaani Est. 2026

Why a Jerusalem-born cat breed is being recognized as the Heirs to King Solomon’s Feline Throne In 2026, I established the Royal House of Kanaani, a cultural, ceremonial and preservation institution dedicated to the future of the rare Jerusalem-born Kanaani...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Oct 2, 2026, 6:53 AM

Bible vs. Talmud: The Irony of Haredi “Torah” Study

The cycle of Torah reading ends and begins again tomorrow on Simkhat Torah (in Israel; on Sunday, overseas). But what exactly is meant by “Torah”? It depends on who you ask. And the (very surprising) answer holds within it...

Oct 1, 2026, 8:14 PM

What ‘They Shall Be My People’ Does Not Mean

The Jerusalem Noahide Congress is not the next step toward the House Brit Olam has printed a verse over the First International Noahide Congress and treated the printing as arrival. “And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in...

Sep 28, 2026, 7:38 AM

Kanaani: The Royal Heirs to King Solomon’s Feline Throne

An ancient Jewish legend, a breed born in Jerusalem, and the meaning of a royal inheritance. By Rabbi Mikhail Salita — Rav Papa Kanaani A golden cat sits on the fifth step of King Solomon’s throne, facing a golden rooster. That detail...

Sep 11, 2026, 12:34 PM

What Kind of King? – מְלוֹךְ עַל כָּל הָעוֹלָם כֻּלּוֹ

Tomorrow we will sing, מְלוֹךְ עַל כָּל הָעוֹלָם כֻּלּוֹ, crowning God as our king, and king over the whole world. A number of years ago, on Rosh Hashanah, my father pointed out to me his observation, that while God as...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Sep 7, 2026, 4:35 AM

The Haftara for the first day of Rosh HaShana (Shmuel I:1:1-2:10) tells the story of Chana and how she yearned for a child. In Shmuel I:1:9-11 we read: Chana stood up after eating in Shilo and after drinking; Eli the...

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