Nefesh B'Nefesh opened its 2026 summer aliyah season with 650 families. This week's parsha is Shelach — and Caleb is still the minority.

The Torah gives explicit instructions to sound the trumpet on your joyful occasions. This week, 650 families in New Jersey and Toronto answered that call.

New York just gave synagogues a 50-foot buffer zone. In Nasso, the oldest biblical text we have physically is the priestly blessing — still said every Friday night.

Devarim 16:11 names the nine people who must be at the Shavuot rejoicing — including the ger, the convert, by category, before the convert arrives.

Before he walked onstage at Eurovision, Noam Bettan wrapped tefillin in the green room. Bamidbar's census says se'u et rosh — lift up the heads. Every skull counted.

The Liberty Bell's rim carries a verse from Leviticus 25:10. Forty million visitors have read it without knowing which book they were standing in front of.

Day 29 of the Omer: four weeks (and one day) down. Emor gives us the counting command — for yourselves — and the weeks have to be whole.

"After the death" is the name of half of this week's Torah portion. "Be holy" is the other half. The Jewish calendar moved the same way this week. No pause. Just the next thing.

Fire from heaven, then silence. Parashat Shemini asks what happens when joy and grief arrive on the same day — and the table has to hold both.

In an Athens burger shop, we found rubber ducks left by someone who wanted to support them after they were attacked for being Jewish. The Torah says: recite these words when you are away.

Moses said "how" because the people were too alive to carry alone. Jeremiah said "how" because they were gone. Same word. Both true.

A prophet hired to curse Israel looked down from a mountain and saw tents arranged with care. He couldn't do it. That's also what a living room full of rubber ducks looks like.