In case you didn’t know already, you matter…and you have a mission. Rabbi Mordechai Burg, menahel at Mevaseret, rebbe of NCSY Kollel, and alum of Long Island NCSY, shares with us an empowering message from this week’s parsha.

What do Stockholm Syndrome and this week’s parsha have in common? Jonathan Teitelbaum, NY NCSY & TJJ Ambassadors, provides an answer, as well as an explanation of the purpose of ears. Give it a listen now!

Yitro has a parsha named after him, but how much do we actually know about his backstory? Rabbi Moshe Dovid Weissman, a former president of Long Island NCSY, now Rosh Kollel of Kollel Zichron Tova Sara in Beitar Illit, Israel, fills us in on some of those missing pieces, as well as some important lessons

In this week’s parsha, we read Az Yashir, the song that the Jews sang after leaving Egypt. And we continue to say it every day. But what makes this song so special? Ari Ziegler, a JLIC Brooklyn alum and IFS staff member, shares his thoughts.

Rabbi Yehuda Maryles, director of Las Vegas NCSY, discusses the concept of Pharaoh’s free will and HaShem ‘hardening his heart’ in this week’s parsha – and what it would be like to have a Superbowl party in Ancient Egypt.

In this week’s Torah portion, we see the start of HaShem’s Ten Plagues over Egypt. In describing the second plague, that of frogs, the Torah uses the singular, that only one frog jumped out. Our understanding is that frogs don’t become a problem until there are millions of them, so why is there just the

In this week’s parsha, a new pharaoh has entirely forgotten about Joseph’s legacy and his good governance. This lack of memory and gratitude sets in motion the enslavement of the Hebrews in Egypt. But that’s old news. When she was on a semester in Israel, Dana Sicherman, director of Institutional Advancement for Atlantic Seaboard NCSY,

Hard work pays off. In this week’s parsha, a coda to that Jacob’s life, he makes his final request to his family in Egypt that he be buried with his fathers, the other two patriarchs. As Devora Weinstock, former New Haven Chapter president and current director of programs for New England NCSY, explains, although the

Although Joseph is known for his self-control, he has to somehow confront the newfound humility of his brother Yehudah, the same brother who sold him into slavery. Yoni Colman, managing director of NCSY Canada & Torah High, explains how Joseph represents the epitome of self-control, as well an interpretation from Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks that foreshadows the two component parts of the Jewish concept of the messiah.

While he's locked up in Pharaoh's prison in Parshat Mikeitz, Joseph begins interpreting dreams, and eventually the rumors of his talents reach Pharaoh himself. Rabbi Moshe Zucker, the veteran director of the Brooklyn NCSY chapter, questions how Pharaoh knew he could trust a lowly prisoner like Joseph with the secrets of his dreams and eventually come to ask Joseph to become his closest advisor.