Vayehi

Eating Holy Food in a Holy Way

By RABBI JULIAN SINCLAIR

In addition to the laws of kashrut, we also need to consider the full range of ethical issues involved in our food’s production. Rashi’s description of a localized, personal agriculture may serve as a model for how to grope our way back from the tortured complexity of the industrial food chain towards a healthier relationship with what we eat.

Trapped In the Narrowness of Oppression

By RABBI JAMES JACOBSON-MAISELS

Exile and redemption, slavery and freedom, are not merely historical events....Only when people are empowered to have the social and political resources necessary to succeed - to live without fear of oppression and violence, the freedom to collaborate with their neighbors and to have the opportunity to participate in the decisions which affect their lives - only then can their essence be freed.

Carrying on after the Golden Age

By RABBI JONATHAN SPIRA-SAVETT

Exciting as it may be to meet the charismatic founder of a movement, the true test of a vision is whether people can sustain it, propound it, and live it.

Being Pursued: Martin Luther King and Maimonides

By RABBI PHIL MILLER

A righteous scholar should be a nerdaf, one who is pursued, rather than being a pursuer. We must side with the underclass, the marginalized, the castoffs, and the pursued, even if it means that we too will be pursued.