by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
I have indeed removed them far among nations and have scattered them among thecountries and I have become to them a diminished sanctity [or small sanctuary]in the countries
Take your son," - "Which son?"
"Your only son," - "Each is the only son of his mother."
"The one you love," - "I love them both."
"Isaac."
-Midrash Genesis Rabbah 39, on Genesis 22:2
The other day I observed a Bible class in the regional high school at Kibbutz
Jewish women for almost five thousand seven hundred seventy years have struggled with a tradition that moved them into a life of modesty, early marriage and motherhood.
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah)
For a while now the complaints regarding the Jewish schools in Israel are unceasing - that the children of Israel, the students in these schools, lack "the taste of Torah," a
Together, we will champion the lessons of Passover by bringing greater wholeness, justice, and belonging to our world.
