It is December, and things are ending. Students get their papers in and prep for finals. Retailers push for a sales rush to declare a good year. Our northern world grows darker, daylight shorter. The ...

In memory of Martin Luther King Jr., who taught us how to go forward. Our rabbis teach us in a midrash that when God created trees, they were full of pride because of their towering stature. Then God ...

The burning bush? One scholar says it was Moses' drug-induced hallucination. The 10 plagues? You can blame ancient dinoflagellates for everything from the blood red Nile to the death of firstborn sons ...

In the opening verse of Bereishit, Rashi asks perhaps the most famous question in all of Torah: why does the Torah begin with the story of Creation? If its primary purpose is to convey commandments, ...