Honor trumps love

Published on May 22, 2013

Between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day is a good time to return again to the fifth of the Ten Commandments, “Honor your father and your mother.”

Shavuot inspires dairy recipes

By Judy Zeidler
Published on May 8, 2013

Shavuot celebrates the receiving of the Ten Commandments and the arrival of the spring harvest. But, for food lovers, it is noted for the array of dairy foods that are served — delicious combinations of cheese, sour cream, milk and eggs. Also in abundance are “stuffed” foods, such as blintzes with cheese fillings.

Weeklong event explores Judaism and wellness

By Rachel Heller
Published on April 18, 2013

When Rabbi Laura Geller learned that her father had Alzheimer’s disease, she struggled with the news. He was only in his 70s, after all, and it was painful for her to watch the man who had raised her — who she said had been “important and powerful and wonderful” in her life — lose his ability to perform daily tasks.

Editorial Cartoon: The First Offering

By Steve Greenberg
Published on May 23, 2012

Putting the Ten Commandments on display

Published on May 17, 2012

Are the Ten Commandments only to be heard but not seen? And when they are seen, how should they look?

Religious Freedom: Should the 10 Commandments Be Promoted in Public?

By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
Published on May 13, 2012

Ala. justice removed over Ten Commandments advances in bid to return

Published on March 15, 2012

A former Alabama chief justice who was removed for placing a monument to the Ten Commandments in his courthouse won the Republican primary in a bid to get back his job.

Opinion: Still the only solution to the world’s problems

By Dennis Prager
Published on August 17, 2011

There is only one solution to the world’s problems, only one prescription for producing a near-heaven on earth.

California on Passover [VIDEO]

Published on April 25, 2011

Kassam Jew on Passover

Ten Things I Hate About Commandments [VIDEO]

Published on April 24, 2011

Ten Commandments Passover spoof video

Have Jews given up on the Ten Commandments? [VIDEO]

By JewishJournal.com
Published on March 18, 2011

TRIBE Live Events and Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary proudly present, "Have Jews given up on the Ten Commandments?" A panel discussion featuring: David Hazony, Rabbi David Woznica, Carol Bakhos. Moderated by David Suissa

EVENT: Have Jews given up on the Ten Commandments?

By JewishJournal.com
Published on March 10, 2011

March 8-March 18, 2011

By Ryan Torok
Published on March 8, 2011

The sculptor and Nazarian family matriarch presents a 25-year survey of her work, in “Strength Revealed.” The exhibition, curated by Barbara Gilbert, curator emerita of the Skirball Cultural Center, explores Nazarian’s artistic progression from mastering the human form to exploring abstraction and non-objectivity.

Honor your father and mother

By Dennis Prager
Published on January 19, 2011

To make the case for the Torah, I can think of no better verse with which to begin than the fifth of the Ten Commandments: “Honor your father and your mother so that your days be lengthened on the land that I give you.” Proper understanding — and living by — this commandment is indispensable to making a good society. And to properly understand it, perhaps the most important point to be made is that the Torah commands that we honor our mother and father; it never commands us to love them.

VIDEO: The Ten Commandments according to an ‘action figure’ that speaks

Published on August 5, 2008

Action figure recites a Christian version of the Top Ten Commandments

God’s Blog #2: Ten Commandments

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on June 10, 2008

A new film series of Biblical proportions:<BR>The Ten Commandments -- they're baaaaack!

By Pat Sierchio
Published on October 18, 2007

"Eight in 10 Americans know two all-beef patties are in a Big Mac, but just over four in 10 -- 41% -- can't name 'Thou shall not kill' as one of the Ten Commandments," according to a 2007 study. Those not-too-surprising results reported by Kelton Research is why producer Frank Yablans is convinced that this is a critical time to have a studio producing educational, faith-based films. "We hope to educate young people and families as to where all civilization came from," explained the 72-year-old Hollywood veteran. Yablans, born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, said he had a "typical New York Jewish upbringing." For more than 50 years, he has toiled in the film industry, steadily rising through the ranks to president of Paramount Pictures in the early '70s. "The Godfather," and "Chinatown" are just a few of the titles that made it one of the most critically acclaimed and profitable studios of that period. But now, he has turned his focus and passion to his new company, Promenade Pictures, whose first production, a computer-animated film, "The Ten Commandments," is scheduled for release Friday, Oct. 19.

‘The Ten’ (commandments) return to the big screen as a comedy

By Pat Sierchio
Published on July 26, 2007

The Ten Commandments have been around for a long, long time. Ever since the 13th Century B.C.E., to be exact. Yet in all this time there have only been two major live theatrical motion pictures made about them; the 1923 silent version and the 1956 epic starring Charlton Heston, both directed by Cecil B. DeMille. But neither one of them had many laughs. Now, after 3,000 years, writer/director David Wain has delivered unto the world a scathingly funny and irreverent take on the commandments in his new film "The Ten."

Ten Commandments for a Happy Marriage

By Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwad
Published on November 10, 2005

Ten Commandments’ Future Unclear

By Matthew E. Berger
Published on June 30, 2005

The U.S. Supreme Court's split rulings this week on the public display of the Ten Commandments is likely to lead to further confusion on what's permissible and what's not, analysts say.

The high court determined that some monuments cast a religious message and therefore violate the separation of church and state.

But taken together, the rulings on two separate but related cases are likely to be viewed as an endorsement of public displays of the Ten Commandments, as long as they are erected with a secular objective.

That means many of the current displays across the country will be allowed to stay, analysts say, and it's unclear whether more will be constructed.

Sorrel Helps Liven Up Neglected Schav

By Linda Morel
Published on May 6, 2004

"Mother used to leave jars full of schav in the refrigerator," says a friend of mine. "Because the stuff looked like seaweed, I would run from the kitchen in horror."

For the Kids

By Abby Gilad
Published on February 19, 2004

For The Kids

Cherish and Respect

By Rabbi Haim Ovadia
Published on February 12, 2004

The Ten Commandments are one of the most fascinating documents in the history of mankind. Hundreds of books and thousands of articles and commentaries were written around them. They decorate, in different forms and media, almost every synagogue and public Jewish facility, and recently they were in the center of a fiery debate regarding the separation of church and state. But from all discussions and debates of commentators and scholars throughout the ages, one question stands out: What is the logic behind the division of the commandments on the Tablets of the Law?

Parshat Yitro

By Abby Gilad
Published on January 23, 2003

In Parshat Yitro, God gives the Israelites the Ten Commandments.

A Portion of Parshat Ki Tisa

By Abby Gilad
Published on February 28, 2002

Oh boy, do the Israelites slip up this week. They have just received the Ten Commandments, have heard God speak to them and have vowed to do all that God commands them, even if they do not fully understand why they must. Forty days later, they're dancing around a calf made of melted golden earrings and calling it a god! What happened?

Contemporary Commandments

By Rabbi Susan Laemmle
Published on January 31, 2002

There is little doubt that Aseret Ha-dibrot, the Ten Commandments, form the centerpiece of Parshat Yitro and probably the entire Torah.