Finding Comfort in a Caring Community
During the Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe, it is customary to go to the cemetery to pay respects, or as I say, 'visit' those you love. This year, during this time, I was fortunate to be in the same city where my dad is buried.
Galilee Diary: Bat Mitzvah
No thunder sounded. No lightening struck.
-Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, recalling her bat mitzvah, March 18, 1922 - the first bat mitzvah in North America at which a girl read from the Torah. She was the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionism.
Galilee Diary: Solidarity
Redemption of captives comes before other forms of tzedakah… and one who ignores the plight of the captive violates the commandment, "Do not stand idly by the blood of your fellow." [Leviticus 19:16].
Galilee Diary: Public Education
...If a teacher comes and opens a school near an existing school, in order to attract other students - or even students from the existing school - the teacher of the existing school is not entitled to protest, as it is written: "It pleased the Lord for the sake of His righteousnes
Book Discussion: Day After Night
The English essayist and poet Alexander Pope wrote, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast..." That adage is challenged by the four protagonists in Anita Diamant's book, Day After Night.
Book Discussion: America's Prophet
In his previous books Walking the Bible and Where God was Born Bruce Feiler took the reader on journeys primarily through the ancient Middle East. America's Prophet, his most current book, leaps ahead several thousand years and thousands of miles.
Hamantaschen Test Kitchen: Gluten-Free
My family is not gluten-free. But we have several close friends who are. So when I posted earlier this month that I'd be starting my hamantaschen baking, one of those friends asked if I'd be making any gluten-free delicacies. Um, no.
Simchat Torah - To Strengthen and To Become Stronger
By P.J. Schwartz
Galilee Diary: Whose wall?
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Galilee Diary: Saturday night
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)