Category Archives: Torah

Alt Right Torah

Posted on January 14, 2017 by Luke Ford

* Alt Right Torah means treating non-Jews as if they were every bit as human as you, had the same hopes and dreams for their people, and extending to these goyim the same sympathy Jews want for themselves. It means … Continue reading →

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Parasha Vayechi (Genesis 47:28–50:26)

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Luke Ford

Listen. Wikipedia: “Vaychi, or Vayhi (וַיְחִי‎ — Hebrew for “and he lived,” the first word of the parashah) is the twelfth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה‎, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the last in the Book … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Torah Portion Is Vayigash — Genesis 44:18–47:27

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Luke Ford

I was live on Youtube discussing with a professor of Gentile Studies this week’s Torah portion of Vayigash — Genesis 44:18–47:27. * It is a very different experience for me reading Genesis as a Jew vs as a Christian. As … Continue reading →

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Shlomo Rechnitz & The 8th Principle Of The Jewish Faith

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

Marc B. Shapiro writes: The assumption of R. Navarra is also found in, of all places, Shlomo Rechnitz’s famous (or infamous, depending your perspective) speech on the Lakewood school situation. In this incredibly courageous speech, delivered, as it were, in … Continue reading →

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Torah & Science

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Luke Ford

Marc B. Shapiro, history professor, writes: In the archive of R. Isaac Herzog there are a number of letters from R. Herzog relevant to the issue of science and Torah.[18] He was writing to scientists and historians asking them how … Continue reading →

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