Torah Sparks

Torah Sparks Newsletter

Welcome to Torah Sparks! Sign up for weekly thought-provoking commentary from our faculty inspired by the weekly Torah portion. Open your inbox every Tuesday to commentaries, videos, poems, and more from Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center scholars. Explore the depths of Jewish text and tradition with us!

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D’var Torah
Original interpretations on the weekly Torah Portion by our Yeshiva’s Mid-Atlantic Faculty-in-Residence, Bex Stern Rosenblatt.

Exploring the Parashah
Video by our Yeshiva graduate and Senior Educator at the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center Jonathan Lipnick, who explores an often neglected aspect of the parashah: geography.

Midrash and the Parashah
Rabbi Joshua Kulp reflects on a single midrash on a specific verse or part of a verse from the parashah.

White Fire: Poetry on the Parashah
Ilana Kurshan, Faculty member and award-winning author of “If All the Seas Were Ink,” tries to illuminate the white fire of Torah – the midrashim, stories, and interpretations that carve out the negative space of the letters and give them shape.

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