Parshat emor

Beyond the headlines: Finding an anchor in the shelter - opinion

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

|BySIVAN RAHAV MEIR
LEARNING IN the bomb shelter.
A CREMATION ritual in Bali.

Parashat Emor: Great is human dignity

Judaism sees the proper and respectful treatment of a person’s dead body as an expression of human dignity.

|ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
Painting by Yoram Raanan

Parshat Emor: Counting the days

Insights into this week's Torah portion.

|BySHLOMO RISKIN
Painting by Yoram Raanan

Parshat tetzaveh: Inner fire and external structure

The human need to maintain time-honored traditions, to repeat familial customs, to pray not from an ever-changing loose-leaf but rather from an ancient text goes back centuries and even millennia.

|BySHLOMO RISKIN

Parashat Emor: In the here and now

‘And I shall be sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel’ (Leviticus 22:32).

MAY 1, 2014BySHLOMO RISKIN
Pitcure from the Parsha