We must not confuse the proper respect we deserve as parents and teachers with disrespect for the dignity of children and students. We have learned this from Yitro as well. The Torah portion Yitro is ...

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Our guest this week is Moshe Weinger Yeshiva University. This week’s Torah portion – Parashat Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23) – begins with the advice given by Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, to the people of ...

Dr. Dennis C. Sasso has been the Rabbi of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, Indianapolis, Indiana since 1977. He is a native of the Republic of Panama, and a descendant of Sephardic (Spanish-Portuguese ...

Moses understood that genuine service of God is not found in thunder and lightning but rather in the place of fog, confusion, and lack of clarity. One of the greatest and most formative moments in ...

I have just returned from Israel, during one of the heaviest weeks in memory. I arrived on Tuesday, after the terrible news of the deaths of twenty-one soldiers. The very air felt heavy as I arrived.

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz shares wisdom from Parshat Yitro about putting aside one’s ego and working together for the common good. With all the uncertainties around us — climate change, public health ...

History’s first convert is introduced in this week’s Parshah; Yitro had been the father-in-law of Moshe for decades, but is only inspired to join the Jewish people after hearing about the splitting of ...

This week’s Parshah contains the first rendition of the ten commandments; the giving of the Torah in full view of an entire nation would become the foundational bedrock of our belief in G-d, and ...

Throughout much of history, it was hard for the Jews have to find true friends. Facing a frequently hostile world, when they came across an unusually cooperative gentile, it came as a bit of a ...

It is for this reason that Yishayahu feels so uncomfortably out of place in the heavenly abode. As he shares with the angels, “Woe is me; I am lost! For I am a man of impure lips, and I live among a ...