Colors: Blue Color

Parshas VaEira shows us the unfolding of g’ulah in action. Hashem begins to reveal Himself to Moshe, saying, “I appeared to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Yaakov as “E-l Shad-dai,” but My Name Hashem I did not make known to them.” Now, the redemption is personal, immediate, and tangible. G’ulah moves from promise to reality.

Douglas Murray has built a career interrogating the ideas that hold civilizations together— and what happens when they fray. A bestselling author, cultural critic, political commentator and journalist whose work spans politics, literature and moral philosophy, Murray will bring that inquiry into the classroom this spring as Yeshiva University’s inaugural President’s Professor of Practice.

Dr. Salomon Amar of Touro’s New York Medical College applies classic Jewish interpretive framework to a contemporary audience

Dr. Salomon Amar, the vice president for Research at New York Medical College (NYMC), has built a career that spans medicine, dentistry, and academic leadership. In his new book Pardes Shlomo, Dr. Amar brings that same breadth of experience to the weekly Torah portion, drawing on a classical Jewish framework to make traditional learning accessible to a contemporary audience.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Tuesday that Nathan White, 54, of Rosedale, has been indicted on charges of making a terroristic threat as a hate crime and related offenses for allegedly posting violent threats against Jewish and Israeli New Yorkers, as well as NYPD officers and federal officials, on his X account in November.