Rabbi Laura Geller

This week’s double Torah portion, Vayak’heil and P’kudei, is very familiar because much in it repeats what we read several weeks ago. In the earlier portions, God commands Moses to erect a Mishkan, a portable sanctuary, with all the ritual objects furnishing it?the Ark, the menorah, the sinks for the

Can I wear a pants suit when I am leading services? How long should my skirts be? Do I have to wear a black suit when I am officiating at a funeral? What should a woman rabbi wear under the chuppah? Early in my career, when there were so few

I spend a lot of time with preteens, young people about to celebrate their becoming b’nei mitzvah. I marvel at their ability to spend hours looking through all kinds of catalogs, imagining some of the gifts they’d like to get: clothes, jewelry, computer games, and other technological innovations that I

“Now when Pharaoh let the people go . . . ” (Exodus 13:17) or b’shalach, “sent away” the people, there were no shortcuts. God didn’t send the Israelites on the shorter coastal route, by way of the land of the Philistines, concerned that they might change their minds because of

And Now a Word From Your Sponsors Laura Geller This week’s Torah portion, Bo, is the middle of the Exodus story. God has already sent Moses to demand of Pharaoh: “Let my people go” (Exodus 5:1, 7:16, 7:26, 8:16, 9:1, 9:13). Following Pharaoh’s refusals, there have been seven plagues already