Reflections for Yom Kippur 5782 According to the text of Leviticus 16:30 there is a day on the Hebrew calendar on which God helps the...

Reflections on the Beginning of the New Jewish Year 5782 On the first two days of the Jewish month of Tischrei, which this year falls on...

This year’s Shavuot will be remembered by all Jews as the one in which the State of Israel faced a cunning attack by the terrorist...

Passover and Easter. A m message of freedom and responsibility.

This will be a different Rosh Hashanah for the Jewish people. In the past, there have been years when some of our people were able to...

Shavuot is called a harvest festival in the Torah, since it happens at the beginning of the harvest of the most precious grain: wheat...

Celebrating Passover and Easter during a Pandemic Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations, Saint Joseph´s University, Philadelphia, PA In...

One of the most important moments of the Jewish tradition is the ritual supper that every family must observe on the night of the first...

In November 2019, Pope Francis and Rabbi Abraham Skorka (University Professor at Saint Joseph's University) discussed the significance of...

A reunion 10 years after the publication of "On Heaven And Earth" In this recently recorded video, Pope Francis and Rabbi Abraham Skorka...

Stockholm Meeting on Interreligious and Cultural Dialogue: “Walk Together” Civilizations prosper only when people are able to overcome...

In Leviticus 26:44, after describing the hardships that the people would suffer while fulfilling the precepts that God had given them,...

The faith of the people on the occasion of their departure from Egypt, the foundational event of Israel, has two aspects. On the one...

This parashah contains a song of Moses, which follows the Torah’s traditional pattern of poetry by being written in equal couplets...

On the one hand, the Torah refers to Yom Kippur as a day of self-denial (Leviticus 16:29,31; 23:27,32; Numbers 29:7), and, on the other...

In this parashah the last two precepts appear that, through Moses, God declares to the people of Israel. Both refer to the importance and...

There are two essential concepts at the heart of the holyday of Rosh Hashana: Judgment and Re-creation. At the beginning of each new...

This parashah begins by describing how the new generation, the one born in the desert, renewed the covenant with God that Abraham had...

This parasha begins by presenting the prayer that the Hebrew farmer should say when offering to God the first fruits (bikurim) that were...

This parashah is characterized by being entirely composed of general laws and, in particular, family laws. They include legislation about...