Clothing is a leitmotif in the Joseph narrative. His father gifts him the coat of many colors; his brothers rip it off his back and dip it in blood; Potiphar’s wife grabs his shirt as he flees from her advances;…
Parashat Vayetze: Yaakov, the master of a silent art form
The pen is more powerful than the sword, yet there is something more powerful than the pen: We live in talkee-talk world. We have talk radio, tv talk shows, news-talk and various other channels of people talking or communicating in…
Posters targeting BDS supporters, Jerry Kang appear on campus
UCLA students, faculty, and staff passing the Janss Steps or behind Powell Library Oct. 5 may have noticed the red, black and green posters portraying Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as Hamas supporters and calling law professor Jerry Kang…
Taste of Torah: More compassionate than we knew
Written by Kerry Chaplin, rabbinic intern at Hillel at UCLA. My wife and I adopted an almost entirely black puppy recently. His name is Charlie (our last name is Chaplin). When we adopted Charlie, we steeled ourselves for the house…