God Who Emerged from the Color of a Burkha
First Response
Galilee Diary: Pesach in the Galilee
The mountainsides were festooned with multicolored wild flowers. The Bedouin shepherds led their flocks to graze along the lush valleys.
Galilee Diary: Traffic Control
When you build a new house, you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it.
-Deuteronomy 22:8
Galilee Diary: The season of our liberation
And when you enter the land that the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this rite.
The Gift of Death
My confirmation at Temple Emanu-El did not happen in the usual manner. Away at boarding school, I could not attend weekly Sunday school class with the other young people preparing for this rite of passage.
My Special Bar Mitzvah Gift in the World of Yesterday
It was a most unusual and special Bar Mitzvah gift.
Galilee Diary: Health care
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Galilee Diary: Torah for the masses
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Galilee Diary: Values collide
We hold that the State of Israel was not permitted, by law, to allocate State land to the Jewish Agency for the purpose of establishing the communal settlement of Katzir on the basis of discrimination between Jews and non-Jews.
-Israel Supreme Court decision, March 8, 2000