Haftarah Shabbos Chanukah: The Vision of Zachariah and its relevance to Chanukah

Parshas Mikeitz: Yosef, the first "Court Jew"

Chanukah, the Maccabean Wars, and the Civil wars in Seleucid Syria

Some thoughts on the Chanukah Story and its historiosophical relation to גָּלוּת יָוָן

Some thoughts on today 24 Kislev and its famous prophecy in סֵפֶר חַגַּי (תְּרֵי עָשָׂר)

Parshas VaYeshev - Yaakov and Yosef "wake up," but too late!

How the Judith Story in the Apocrypha (or a different version of the story) entered orthodox rabbinic literature AND practice

Haftarah Vayeshev: Amos blasts the social injustice prevalent in his time

Parshas VaYeshev: The remarkable tale of the character-development of Joseph

Chanukah 2025: The Story of the Greeks depriving the Jews of doors and windows

The Current Big Threat to Israel from ... Turkey

Haftarah VaYishlach: Who exactly was Ovadiah?

Israel & France (and Syria) : Connecting Dots

Chanukah 2025: Was the oil in the jar in the Temple the only kosher oil available?

Parshas VaYishlach: Why does Jacob say to Esau that he observed all 613 Mitzvos?

The "בַּת עַיִן" in Historical Context (1765-1840)

Haftarah VaYeitzei: Hoshea 11:7, an extremely difficult verse to parse

What's with this Israeli preoccupation with the bodies of their dead, killed by Hamas & Co.?

Parshas VaYeitzei: What is Yaakov afraid of?

Some thoughts on Self-Hating and Self-Denying Jews in the current antisemitic climate, now and a century ago