THIS SHABBOS IS Parashas Shekalim (yes, already), because next Tuesday and Wednesday will be Rosh Chodesh Adar, b”H, making this also Shabbos Mevarchin.

The question has been asked countless times since the Holocaust was over. What turns an anti-Semite into a mass murderer, a pogrom into genocide?

THIS SHABBOS MAKES me want to sing. (Don’t worry… you won’t hear me even if I do.) After all, it is Shabbos Shirah, the parsha with the Shir Shel Yumm—Song

THE SITUATION IS becoming intolerable. When the Right loses the vote, they go back to the drawing table to figure out how to win it the next time.

THE SEFER IS called Shemos because it is the second word of the first parsha, “These are the names…” But there seems to be more to this than might be the case with the other four books of the Torah, since this week’s parsha begins with an education about God’s names.