Gifts to Israel: 19 New Citizens Celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut
There's nothing like experiencing something for the very first time. Swimming the length of the Kinneret. A first love. The first whiff of this year's jasmine blossoms in Jerusalem. Taking your very first bite of my homemade bread pudding (trust me).
The Value of Our Teens’ Time
This is the paradox of youth professionals everywhere: We want to help our teens de-stress from their very busy lives by participating in enriching and restoring activities at their synagogue. How do we get them here without making their lives busier or adding more to their already over-programmed schedules? Is that even possible?
Entering the Void
PARASHAH OVERVIEW
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Moses sings his last song, a love poem to God and a chastisement of the people, who are not worthy of Adonai. (32:1-6)
Does Don Draper Want to Be Jewish?
In the weeks before the beginning of the final season of Mad Men, the show’s creator Matthew Weiner did rounds
Gratitude, Leadership, and Partnership for the New Year
RAC Reads: Septembers of Shiraz
Nail in the Coffin: Fighting for Pluralism in Israel
Three years ago, Zvi Ginsburg came to the Israel Religious Action Center after the death of his wife.
Being Holy - and Staying Alive
Acharei Mot, the first of this week's two parashiyot, begins on an unsettling note—a reminder of the death of Aaron's sons and the suggestion that such tragedies might occur again unless the priests take specified steps to prevent them
Reform Jewish Movement Celebrates House Passage of Tobacco Regulation Bill
Saperstein: “This bill sends a clear message that we will no longer stand for the unregulated, unsupervised distribution of tobacco products.”