May 3, 2024 -
- 516-935-5454
May 3, 2024 -
Have Doubts About God? Our Parsha begins with Moses in a state of high anxiety and crisis of faith. Since his audience with Pharaoh, the situation of the Jewish slaves Continue Reading »
Making Our Blessings Count On Shabbat evening, after the graceful candles are lit and the family is gathered around the table, it’s customary for parents to bless their children. This Continue Reading »
Drive a Mercedes Benz? My Jewish summer camp experiences always coincided with Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. While recounting the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem Continue Reading »
Repeating Our Parents’ Behavior Sometimes, we repeat our parents’ behaviors without even realizing it. In our parsha, sons repeat their father’s behavior when Judah and his brethren are informed that Continue Reading »
The Word of the Year 2018 has been a tough year: school and synagogue shootings, massive wildfires and hurricanes, more #metoo issues, and turmoil in the Oval Office and with Continue Reading »
All That Doesn’t Kill Me… Tragedy affects all of us. Some challenge us and make us stronger. Some make us weaker. Our Parsha seems to jump on the “All that Continue Reading »
Preserve the Love Last Shabbat we experienced the worst violence against the Jewish people in American history. In the days that followed, we perhaps received some of the greatest broad-spectrum Continue Reading »
Looking Forward with Faith One of the things that intrigues me the most is the commonalities shared in origin stories or myths as some might say. Are they variants on Continue Reading »
Sensing the Sublime The book of Genesis speeds quickly from the creation of the universe to the expansion of humankind on the face of the earth. The story is not Continue Reading »
Confessing Upon Our Greatest Sin Howard Schwartz (from Rosh HaShanah fame) came over to me a few days ago: “Rabbi I don’t know what to do. I haven’t missed a Continue Reading »
Manetto Hill Jewish Center
244 Manetto Hill Road, Plainview, NY 11803
516-935-5454|Email Us
