In this week’s parashah, Nitzavim, we encounter two verses that many of us know well, as we recite them each Shabbat in the Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel: “Even if your outcasts are at ...

Each project is tailor-made to the campus it serves, with strategies ranging from combating antisemitism to providing Jewish programming and education about Israel. At a time when antisemitism is ...

The Torah reading of Nitzavim, always read the Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah, in many ways is wide and expansive, like the opening end of the Shofar. The parasha (week’s Torah portion) begins: You ...

Parashat Nitzavim records the end of Moshe’s third farewell discourse to his beloved nation, the discourse which began last week in Parashat Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 27:1) and concludes with the end of ...

For this commandment which I command you this day, is not concealed for you, nor is it far away. Things can be far away geographically or psychologically. And things can be concealed because we choose ...

“See, I have set before you today life and goodness, death and evil… therefore, choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:15, 19). These words are spoken by Moses near the very end of his life. They are not merely ...

The very two words that signify the titles of the two portions of the Torah that we will hear in the synagogue this Shabbat are, at first glance, contradictory. Nitzavim (they are standing) signifies ...

"You are standing here today, all of you... from the heads of tribes... to the woodcutters and water-drawers” Deuteronomy 29:9 Thousands gather outside Downing Street to call for the immediate and ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Morley Feinstein of L.A.’s University Synagogue. Rabbi Feinstein attended the University of California, Berkeley where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with highest honors.

The Torah notes that even when we are dispersed, God will return us to Him: “then the Lord your God will bring back [v’shav] your captivity” (Deuteronomy 30:3). Interestingly, the term used here is ...