December 5, 2025 -
December 5, 2025 -
Thank You for an Exceptional Year Our Torah reading, Parshat Nitzavim, starts: “You are standing this day, all of you, before your God, —your leaders, your elders, your officials, everyRead More »
Unconditional Love We’re now more than one week into Elul, the month directly preceding Rosh Hashanah. As it’s a preparation month for the High Holidays, we blow the shofar dailyRead More »
Love of God With Parshat Ekev, we are now in the middle of Moses’ farewell address, and at nearly 120 years old, it seems that Moses has become soft. AllRead More »
What’s in a Name? With Parshat Shlach, we just read one of the saddest episodes in the Torah. On the cusp of entering the Land of Canaan, we get coldRead More »
Who is a Jew? This question has been raging since the 1980s. Whose conversions count, do we include patrilineal lineage, are the Ethiopian Jews indeed Jewish? Yet historically this questionRead More »
The Prophecy of Equality This past Shabbat we celebrated a most beautiful B’not Mitzvah with twin sisters. Sometimes the Torah reading is exciting and engaging in and of itself, andRead More »
Fulfilling The Vision Last week we celebrated Yom HaAtztmaut, the anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. In just 74 short years, Israel has become a first-class nationRead More »
This week we transition from Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) to Yom HaAtztmaut (Israel’s Independence Day). The juxtaposition of these holidays should not be lost upon us. Yom HaShoah fallsRead More »
The Songs of Passover The songs of Passover don’t end on Seder night. Many of us are familiar with Mah Nishtaneh, Who Knows One, and Chad Gadya, yet there areRead More »
The Best Laid Schemes O’ Mice An’ Men This Passover would have been our first with guests in two years. We bought a brisket big enough for 18 people. ThenRead More »
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