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This year’s reading of Parshat Noah is on October 21. The tradition is to celebrate by baking and enjoying rainbow treats. “I love the rainbow monkey bread babka because not only is it unique, ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Sarah Hronsky, leader of Temple Beth Hillel in Valley Village, LA. Rabbi Hronsky was ordained a rabbi by Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC) of Los ...

This week’s parsha, Noach, tells the story of God’s disappointment with humanity and its destruction by flood. Noach, his family and the animals are saved in the ark. After landing on dry ground, ...

After leaving the ark, Noah becomes drunk and uncovers himself (Genesis 9:21). His children, having witnessed this act, react in very different ways. Ham and his son Canaan appear to mock their father ...

Parashat Noah: Olive leaf from paradise Even now, our hearts beat together with those of the heroes and freed hostages, who for two years suffered in the tunnels of darkness and the shadow of death.

This week’s portion describes the story in Genesis of the great deluge that destroyed the earth. Why must the narrative tell us about the flood in such great detail? The Torah, very simply, could have ...

At the end of last week’s Parsha, we find that as Noach was born, the ‘name giver’ gives an explanation for this name: “This [Noach] will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands because ...

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Our Parasha relates that, after Noach and his sons came out of the Ark, Noach (9:20): ’ ויחל נח: איש האדמה: man of the earth, debased himself, and planted a vineyard.’ Rashi comments: ’’Noach debased ...