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Parshas Balak 2020: The Obscurities in the Account of the Punishment that Followed the Bnos Moav Story

Parshas Shelach: Canaanite Consumerism?

Parshas BeHaaloscha: The Menorah as a Symbol of Moral Leadership, Not Political

Parshas Naso: Can Sexuality Be Divorced From Prurience?

Parshas Bamidbar: The First Jewish Army in History?

Parshas Behar-Bechukosai: Is Recurring-Catastrophe a Basic Part of Jewish Destiny?

Parshas Emor: Are Kohanim Still Holy Nowadays?

Parshas Acharei Mos-Kedoshim: What Does “קדושים תהיו” Mean Nowadays? Really

Parshas Tazria-Metzora: The House That is Tamei

Parshas Shmini 2020 – The Mishkan as a National (Not Tribal) Institution

Parshas Vayikra: The “Sacrifice” of Self- Isolation: The Case of Moses

Parshas Vaykhel-Pekudei (Parshas HaChodesh) 2020: Two Concepts of “Shevisah” in the Coronavirus Era

Parshas Ki Tisa: What’s Worse – Amalek or the Golden Calf?

Parshas Zachor: Was Saul Really Responsible for Haman?

Parshas Terumah: Was the Mishkan Commanded During the First 40 Days of Moses on the Mountain?

Parshas Mishpatim. “Going up” to the Tetragramaton

Parshas Beshalach: Weren’t They Supposed to Head Towards Mt. Sinai Anyway?

Parshas Bo: The “Borrowers”

Parshas VaEra: The Ten Plagues as They Would Have Appeared to Egyptians and to Hebrews

Parshas Shemos: The Jews Who Didn’t Want to Leave

Parshas VaYechi: Canaanite Ancestors?

Parshas Vayigash: The Gaping Holes in the Narrative

Parshas Mikeitz: The Fifth Galus – Egypt

Parshas VaYeshev: Disunity in the Family

Parshas VaYishlach: The Rape of Dina in Kabbalistic Terms

Parshas VaYetzei: The Lavan Challenge in Jewish History and Meta-History

Parshas Toldos: Yitzchak and the Palestinians, 4,000 years ago

Parshas Chayai Sarah: Death and Shidduchim

Parshas Vayeira: Sodom – Then and Now

Parshas Lech Lecha The adventures of the childless couple

Parshas Noach: Disturbing Stories

Parshas Haazinu: Moses’ History of the Future

Parshas Vayelech: Pessimism on Shabbos Shuva?

Parashas Nitzavim and Rosh HaShanah

The Tochecha: Trying to Relate It to History and Current Events- Parshas Ki Savo

דברה תורה כנגד יצר הרע: Parshas Ki Seitzei

Parshas Shoftim: Political Science

Parshas Re’eh- Moses’ Prescient Warnings Against Syncretism

Parshas VaEschanan ואתחנן

Parshas Devarim: The Censorious Speech of Moses and Its Connection with תשעה באב

Parasha: פרשת מטות מסעי

Parshas Balak- The Phenomenon of Moses’ Inability to Respond to Direct Challenges to His Authority

Parshas Korach: Provoking the Nuclear Option

פרשת שלח Parshas Shelach

Does the Torah Require Any ‘Secular’ Knowledge? Parashas Behaloscha

Parshas Nasso – Deference for Consensus

Parshas Bechukosai-The Tocahachah and Modern Times

Lag B’Omer- Parshas Behar

Parshas Kedoshim and the Passion – Imperative

פרשת מצורע-Parshas Metzora-Shabbos HaGadol

Parshas Tazria – Parshas Hachodesh – Parsha Perspective

Parshas Shmini: Nadav and Avihu – Parsha Perspective

Parshas Tzav – A text or a code? – Parsha Perspectives

Parshas Zachor – Where’s Amalek? – Parsha Perspectives

Parshas Pekudei – Parsha Persepctives

Parshas ויקהל – Parsha Perspectives

Parshas Ki Sisa – Why would they make the Golden Calf? – Parsha Perspective

Parshas Tetzaveh: Parsha Perspectives

Parshas Teruma: Parsha Persepctives

Parshas Mishpatim: Parsha Perspectives

Parshas Yisro – Fathers-in-law

Parshas Beshalach – Faith or Conviction?: Parsha Perspectives

Parshas Bo: Employer- Employee Relationships: Parsha Perspectives

פרשת וארא The Perils of Rationalism

Shemos: ‘Goshens’ Does Success Carry its own Ingredients for Failure?: Parsha Perspectives

Shemos – Moshe the Son of Pharaoh’s Daughter: Parsha Perspectives

Veyechi: Communicating…or not: Parsha Perspectives

Va’yigash: Joseph, Not a Dreamer but a Master of Dreams: Parsha Perspectives

Noach: The Tower of Babylon: Parsha Perspectives