The Reform Movement at Its Best
This past weekend, my wife Helene and I had a chance to see the Reform Movement at its best and got to do so while also listening to the Boston Symphony Orchestra play Mozart and Ravel.
The Shofar Blasts as a Metaphor for Life
If, as the Talmud tells us, the blasts of the shofar are meant to remind us of crying, (Babylonian Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 33A – specifically of Sisera’s mother – but that is another subject!), then I would offer the following.
Galilee Diary: Sustainability II
God placed in [the heavens] a tent for the sun, who is like a groom coming forth from his chamber, like a hero, eager to run his course. His rising-place is at one end of the heaven, and his circuit reaches the other; nothing escapes his heat.
Galilee Diary: Interfaith
I think the Jewish question is no more a social than a religious one, notwithstanding that it sometimes takes these and other forms.
Galilee Diary: Sustainability III
They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according toits kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.
Galilee Diary: Interfaith II
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people saying: When any of you or of your posterity who are defiled by a corpse or are on a long journey [on the date of Passover, the 14th of the first month] would offer a Passover sacri
Protecting Choice: L'Dor v'Dor
L’Dor v’Dor: Champion the Poor and Needy
Piling On
Looking Forward: Food Day
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