Humash

How should one respond to ominous cultural trends that have not yet had a direct impact? Alex Maged's thoughts on the rape of Dinah.

This week's Parashah introduces us to the city of Shechem. Tamar Weissman examines the various appearances of this city throughout Tanakh, explaining that while it is a city of rupture, it is also one of covenant and fraternity.

Mark Glass explores the implications of a little-known interpretation in which Lot's wife never turned to salt.

Gidon Rothstein mines parashat Yitro for insight into best practices in synagogue governance.

Aryeh Klapper recreating a patriarchal voice.

A call for a new Modern Orthodox Humash, and a history of the current ones, by Yosef Lindell.

Meshulam Gotlieb analyzes a midrash on Jacob's ladder dream to understand Jacob's lifelong fear, how he became so fearful and how it affected his life.

In his letter to the editor, Gershon Klapper draws upon three medieval sources that undermine Ben Greenfield's recent reading of the Zohar on the three attributes of the Avot.

Why did the women bring musical instruments out of Egypt? In her first Lehrhaus article, musicologist Rebecca Cypess draws a fascinating historical analogy between biblical and African-American slavery to shed light on the Exodus in Jewish tradition.

A poem on parshat Korach by Zohar Atkins