No Jews Among the Founders, Yet Jewish Ideas at the Founding A Fourth of July/Shabbat Reflection on America’s Fifth Jubilee This Shabbat coincides with an…

Delivered as a Dvar Torah for Shabbat Emor, may 1st 2026 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהֹוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֱמֹ֥ר אֶל־הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים GOD said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the…

Our Parashah begins with the laws of social restructuring known as Shmitah and Yovel. Every six years of working the land, the land itself must…