Maharat empowers transformation, from providing classes to cohorts to microgrants.

Maharat students from France, Germany, Australia, and everywhere in between, talk about what it means to be part of a global community.

When facing the loss of his two sons, the narrative describes very different reactions from Avraham. Dr. Susan Hornstein analyzes the stories and offers the reader several more points to consider before ending in more questions than before.

Big change rarely follows a single large moment; rather, it is the outcome of a smaller decision to affirm a belief and commit to a stance. Yali Szulanski writes about the small moments which shaped Avraham’s life, and explains the importance of believing in our decisions and making the first step through scientific and poetic parallels.

While it can be so easy to be frustrated with Noach, sitting in the ark and waiting for the divine okay, Rabbanit Yael Keller pushes back and offers him support. As a survivor of trauma locked inside while the world around him is destroyed, she argues that the parashah is particularly pertinent to our generation.

Two years after an attack on a German shul, Rabbi Rebecca Blady unites the community to celebrate the strength of Judaism and speakers encourage the students who were in the shul and have joined the community to raise their voices in activism.

While examining the black and white fires of Torah as well as the dynamics and dialectics between perfection and imperfection, Rabbi Phoebe Ana Rabinovitch proposes that human beings generate the grey area of perfect imperfection and the satisfaction that lies within this.

In a piece examining both women in Jewish leadership and women in Judaism, the article follows Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz from childhood through semikha and beyond as she discusses the roles Judaism has played in her life.

The image of the eagle appears several times in Tanakh, a curious choice for the symbol of God’s love of Israel. Talia Weisberg assesses the protective love of God through a midrashic lens and emphasizes its relevance during an uncertain holiday season.

Yom Kippur is a day of imitating death. After living through cancer treatments in her own near-death experience, Maya Bernstein reflects what this awareness means for us.