Portion
National News
- For Madoff’s Victims, Here’s a Guide to the Complex World of Legal Restitution
- In the Courtroom: Torment and Dante’s Hell
- Once Labeled An AIPAC Spy, Larry Franklin Tells His Story
Community News
- A ‘Jewish Missionary’ Takes On Hunger
- Judge: Kosher Company Illegally Coerced Workers Before Union Election
- Survivors’ Hopes Dashed as NY Assembly Adjourns Without Sex Abuse Vote
International News
- Franz Molnar’s Heirs Fight Over His Bank Account, And Their Identity
- Harmony Silenced at Egyptian Music Fest
- Prague Conference May Be Last Chance To Settle Holocaust Property Claims
Israel News
- Growing Gulf Between U.S. And Israeli Jews on Obama
- Some See Extended Olive Branch For Israel In Ross Appointment to NSC
- Why Defining ‘Natural Growth’ Is So Confusing, On Purpose
Arts & Culture
- From the Kol Israel Orchestra to a Pygmy Choir
- A Climb, a Crime and a Debut Novel
- Allowing the Yetzer Tov To Win
- Man’s (Comedic) Search for Meaning
- What do the Egg, the Swan and the Ant Have in Common?
- ‘Settling’ the Score
Fast Forward
- Forget the Game... How’s the Grub?
- Art Pop Indie Rock Meets Midrash
- Pioneer Songs, Revisited
- Camp in the Catskills: A Summer Tradition
- Moroccan Tradition
- Swine of the Times
The Shmooze
- Not ‘Far’ From Her Roots
- Historic Breakaway
- Disney Channel Goes Hebrew
- Shimon Peres, Songwriter?
- Surf’s Up
- Urban Kibbutz Puts Down Roots
Forward Forum
- In Iran Elections, Hezbollah Loses — Will Israel Too?
- Gilad Shalit’s Plight, and Israel’s Dilemma
- A Fourth of Jew-ly Celebration
- Sharansky Inherits a House Divided
- Actions Speak Louder Than (Even Ugly) Words
- Jewish Peoplehood Denied, While Israel’s Foes Applaud
Editorial
Excessive Pride
By Leah Hochbaum
When I was in the fourth grade, my Brooklyn yeshiva held a Torah fair. My partner — a girl whom I fancied a close friend but who was to move to California two years later, never to be heard from again — and I quickly decided on a parsha that had fascinated us since we’d learned about it earlier that year. We went to Manhattan Beach to gather sand, crafted petite people out of pipe cleaners and fashioned an angry God from cotton balls (stained red with a waxy Crayola crayon) purchased at a local drugstore. We then took a cardboard box, cut a large groove into the bottom, poured in the sand and glued our pipe cleaner people to the sides of the indentation so that they looked like they were falling into the cavernous space.Read More
Reluctant Prophets, Humble Leaders
By Peretz Rodman
‘My lord Moses, restrain them!” So shouts Joshua as he and Moses observe that two men, Eldad and Medad, are behaving as prophets within the Israelite encampment (Numbers 11:28). Prophecy, after all, is Moses’ claim to authority. Should it be discovered that Moses has no monopoly on prophetic powers, perhaps his authority would be eroded, his leadership subject to challenge. Joshua, as his loyal acolyte, is acutely sensitive to that danger.Read More
Making It Our Own
By Joshua Cohen
Late in Naso, this week’s portion from the Book of Numbers, we find Judaism’s most famous blessing. Beginning at verse 6:22, we read the following, in the version of King James.Read More
In the Wilderness of Ink
By Beth Bosworth
Certain scholars believe that the Redactor added a single sentence to this week’s Torah portion.Read More
Making It Our Own
By Jeffrey Fiskin
A fine day in Hollywood. Two white-robed and bearded gentlemen enjoy luncheon on the terrace of a movie studio commissary, when a third similarly dressed fellow in a fright wig stands on a nearby table and begins to rant about what evils will befall our errant kind.Read More
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