Korah seeks to seemingly democratize the nation by decrying Moses’s elitism and creates division by offering egalitarianism, but Moses sees what he's really after: Unbridled power. This week’s Torah ...

“Now Korah, son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi, betook himself, along with Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth – descendants of Reuben – to rise up against Moses, together with ...

Korah, the Bible tells us, was an affluent, ambitious man who was also a rebel. He publicly defied the leadership of Moses and tried, unsuccessfully, to start a movement to impeach Moses and possibly ...

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Few figures are so maligned in the Old Testament as Korah, leader of the failed rebellion against Moses at Sinai (Numbers 16). In punishment for his blasphemous audacity, Korah – together with his ...

This week’s Torah portion, Korah, tells a spectacular story of rebellion and punishment. Korah challenges Moses and Aaron’s rule with a deceptively simple argument: “All of the community is holy.… ...

When Captain Spock died in “The Wrath of Khan” (1982), I was curious how he’d return in “The Search for Spock” (1984). Back then, I knew that the actor, Leonard Nimoy, was Jewish, but my draw to him ...