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The Trump-Bibi Bond

The Nine Angles

How Anti-Zionism Became a Western Rite

Out of a Country

Chaplin the Schlemiel

Dicks

The Name Game

What’s the Point of Holiness?

Our 613 Love Languages

The Settler Violence Myth

Iran’s Flying Monkeys

I Didn’t Pack for This

Hummus and History

The Beauty of Bokser

Jewish Food Influencers Grapple With Politics in the Kitchen

One Home, Two Holidays

The Story of Gelt

How to (Actually) Cook With Your Kids for Hanukkah

Evangelical Christians

The Spiritual Heart of ‘Sinners’

A Church Within a Church

How Churchill’s Successor Gave Stalin the MiG

When Artificial Intelligence Came to Life in 18th-Century Amsterdam

Russian Terrorists and Their ‘Progressive’ Allies

The Worst Trip Ever

King Khat

Bad Medicine

The Golden Age of Jewish Hockey

Marty Glickman 

Qatar’s World Cup FIFA Bribe Documents Exposed

Why Torah is Like the Rain (Ha'azinu)

In Your Mouth and in Your Heart (Nitzavim)

Wayward Sons and Kidnapped Women (Ki Tetzei)

Is Compassion Extra Credit? (Re’eh)

Why Did God Keep Moses From Entering Israel? (Vaetchanan)

Did God Break a Promise? Did We? (Maatot-Maasei)

What Do We Do When We See Evil Unpunished? (Balak)

Is Democracy Always the Divine Plan? (Korach)

Who Deserves to Be Cut Off? (Beha'alotcha)

The Daily Call of Mount Sinai (Shavuot)

Remembering the Individuals Among the Crowds (Bamidbar)

When Productivity Got Canceled Biblically (Behar)

Should Jews Be Holy, or Good? (Kedoshim)

When Biblical Demands Seem Cruel (Metzorah)

The Miracle of Jewish Survival (Tzav)

When Your Heart Moves You (and When It Doesn’t) (Pekudei)

Can Fashion Choices Be Holy? (Tetzaveh)

Who Doesn’t Love the Stranger? (Mishpatim)

This week we discuss leadership in action, looking at the early life of Moses and considering the challenges of cultivating fierce ideological commitment alongside a deep and personal concern for individuals.

Parsha in Progress is a podcast hosted by Abigail Pogrebin. author of 

My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew

, and Rabbi Dov Linzer, head of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.

A discussion of the weekly Torah portion with writer Abigail Pogrebin and Rabbi Dov Linzer, friends who differ in Jewish observance but share a reverence for tradition and an appetite to mine the parsha for wisdom that can help guide us today.


Parsha In Progress

The Early Life of Moses (Shemot)