Joseph and Moses live different lives at different times with different leadership styles. But one thing is exactly the same: a shared passion for a vibrant Jewish future.

The Passover he initiated at God’s behest, focused on the blood of a sacrificial lamb saving them from divine judgment, was a ...

Moses was singularly significant as God’s most intimate and important prophet regardless of the lack of historic evidence ...

In this week’s Torah portion, God threatens to destroy the entire nation of Israel for the sin of worshipping the Golden Calf. Moses intercedes and convinces God not to carry out that destructive plan ...

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When Rabbi Maurice Harris wrote “Moses: A Stranger Among Us” in 2012, the book sold well enough to land him speaking engagements at about a dozen synagogues and churches. Twelve years later, the book ...

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At this time of year, when our own lives are in the balance, why do we read the record of Moses’ last days? The reading begins, “Vayelech Moshe” (and Moses went). Can it be that our own efforts at ...

Back when I was teaching in Prague, one enthusiastic student loved to tease me about my obsession with the passing of Israel’s greatest teacher. In this fixation I am not alone: The Midrashim testify ...

And so Moses dies, alone on a mountain with God as he had been all those years ago when, as a shepherd in Midian, he caught sight of a bush in flames and heard the call that changed his life and the ...

The Torah is the foundational text of the Jewish People. Initially, it asserts a pre-history and a purpose of the ancient Judahite kingdom to which contemporary Jews trace their emotional and often ...

An English translation of key works, many never before translated, by Moses Mendelssohn, the founder of modern Jewish philosophy German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is best known ...