Last Shabbat, we concluded the Book of Bamidbar (“Numbers”)—literally In the Wilderness. Fittingly, both the opening and ...

It is crucial not to sever modern Jewish history from the interim, desert experience of the past two thousand years.

Long ago, our nation’s years of wilderness wandering “gave birth” to a new generation, facing new challenges, in a changing world. These past months have seen our world immeasurably transformed.