Posts Tagged: Behar parsha
Minority Rights in Judaism
One of the most striking features of the Torah is its emphasis on love of -- and vigilance toward -- the ger (stranger): Do not oppress a stranger; you...
The Jewish People Is a True Family
I argued in Covenant and Conversation Kedoshim that Judaism is more than an ethnicity. It is a call to holiness. In one sense, however, there is an...
Judaism Was First in Fight Against Income Inequality
The most surprising best-selling book in 2014 was French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century - a dense 600-page long treatise on economic theory...
Judaism Teaches Long-Term Thinking
In last week's parsha and this there are two quite similar commands, both of which have to do with counting time. Last week we read...
