Rabbi Billy Dreskin

Rabbi Billy Dreskin is rabbi emeritus at Woodlands Community Temple near White Plains, New York. In retirement, he spends much of his time writing music which you can hear at Jonah's Trading Post. His rabbinic writings are online at his personal website and at The Jonah Maccabee Foundation.
Korach

Not All Rebellions Look (or End) Like Korach's Did

D'Var Torah By: Rabbi Carole B. Balin, Ph.D.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States this year, Rabbi Carole Balin, Ph.D., is sharing eight chapters of an "alternative Book of Numbers” designed to tell the stories of Jewish women who combined civic engagement with Jewish values in a 40-year struggle “in the wilderness” to pass the 19th Amendment.​
Small brown bird standing on grey stone
Tishah B'Av

All of Life's Ninths of Av

Rabbi Billy Dreskin

I have a story to tell you. It’s about a tiny bird. But I’ll come back to that.

Tishah B’Av has been set aside as a day for the Jewish community to remember the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple two thousand years ago. Traditionally, this day is observed