If You Will It, It Is No Dream Life’s challenges can be daunting. From changing our diet to healing broken families to making our schools safe, “Mission Impossibles” seem toRead More »
Moses Had A Bad Day We all have our bad days. Sometimes we’re just not up to par. In our Parsha, Moses, our great leader, has one of those days.Read More »
The Greatest Thing You’ll Ever Learn This Sunday was Mothers’ Day as well as Yom Yerushalayim, the day we regained sovereignty over all of Jerusalem through victory in the SixRead More »
Sinners or Saints? The Death of Rabbi Akiva’s Students One would think that if a mourning period was declared, it would be over some thing or person worth mourning. Yet, weRead More »
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Plague of Tzaraat Today’s Parsha deals with metaphysical affiliations of the skin, clothes or home called Tzaraat. Many of the readings in Leviticus are wearying;Read More »
Spiritual Resilience This past Thursday was Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance day. The Holocaust means something different to each one of us. Some of us are children of survivors, or lostRead More »
Making Sense of Death Yizkor is a moving service to honor those precious friends and family members whose presence is so sorely missed over the holidays. Some of them passedRead More »
The New Four Children Thanks to Michael and Sharon Dashow, who were kind enough to invite my family to their Seder, my first Seder was fascinating and enlightening. The DashowsRead More »
Modern Day Exoduses We recall the exodus from Egypt twice daily with designated prayers in the morning and evening services. Two nights a year, we celebrate this event with prolongedRead More »
Samantha Hirsch, producer of public programs for the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, provided MHJC with a rare opportunity to borrow a Megillah liberatedRead More »