Darchei Noam דרכי נועם

Over the past months, we’ve embarked on a collective journey every Shabbat from slavery in Egypt, to freedom and on to Har Sinai. In...

Parshat Mishpatim is a favorite of mine, and probably other lawyers as well. The parsha is replete with laws and for someone like me it was hard to choose what to talk about.  There are many debates among biblical scholars and legal scholars about whether the laws are set out in today’s parsha in a specific order or are more random. The covenant code of this parsha, as it is called, contains criminal law, civil law, laws against death to people, death to animals, and other la

Last year, my class had to write a seven to ten page paper on a topic that mattered to us. I chose women in the IDF. Halfway into...

This past week I retired from Pediatrics. To mark the occasion, I cut this stethoscope as a symbol that, since I don’t need it anymore,...

Darchei Noam, thank God, has grown tremendously over the 18 years since we began: we now have three times as many member families as when...