I Want to Observe Shabbat. Where do I Begin?
The best way to begin observing Shabbat is by starting small and adding to your Shabbat observance as you grow more comfortable. If you are interested in ritual, try learning the blessings of the Shabbat table.
Green Eggs and Hamantaschen: Creative Purim Gift Bags Bring a Community Together
Purim at Or Chadash, in Flemington, N.J., includes many of the usual traditions: putting on a Purim spiel (play), using boxes of pasta as gragers, baking hamantaschen with our students, reading the Megillah, and hosting a spectacular carnival that features Esther’s Salon, Mordecai’s March Madness, a photo booth, and plenty of prizes and food.
Be Prepared for Jewish Disability Awareness Month
Galilee Diary: Seasons greetings
You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. They shall not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me; for you will serve their gods - and it will prove a snare to you.
-Exodus 23:32-33
Civil Liberties (not) in the State of the Union
In another topic quietly absent from tonight's speech, President Obama did not mention Congress' reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act that is in progress. (It seems as if the only thing done more quietly than the wire-taps it authorizes is the now seemingly annual reauthorization of the law.)
Four Questions to Ask Ourselves When It Comes to Youth Engagement
Blessings for Festival and Yom Tov Candle Lighting
Getting Ready for Tu BiShvat
We just said goodbye to 2010, but it's already time to start planning for another New Year's celebration: Tu BiShvat the Jewish New Year for the trees, is just ten days away.
We Ourselves Went Forth from Egypt
Our encounter with the offerings made in the Tabernacle is interrupted on the Shabbat of April 4th by a description of the Exodus that we celebrate on this day, the first day of Pesach.
Half a Shekel of Guilt Money
My Uncle Max, of blessed memory, used to put a few coins into the pushke of a little yeshivah in Jerusalem every time its representatives would come to America, knocking on doors.