Jacob Friedman is with IfNotNow NYC.

This week’s Torah parsha is Va’eira, or “I appeared”, the first words that God speaks in the parsha. Va’eira begins that most memorable part of the Pesach Seder, the plagues. By the time the parsha ends, Pharaoh and the…

Jacob Friedman is with IfNotNow NYC.

The Torah calendar radically rejects the temporality of the market in favor of something much more powerful- a story that connects us to our ancestors, and a parasha (portion) that we…