Author: Congregation Beth El

Food Tourah: Vayelech

September 25, 2025

Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. 52 parshiot down, 2 more to go! …

Food Tourah: Ki Tavo

September 10, 2025

Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. 50 parshiot down, 4 more to go! …

Mazal Talk Episode 1: Music and Hip-hop from Israel ft. Abraham Belilty

September 2, 2025

Join shlichim Yoel Gleizer and Abraham Belilty as they take you on a journey through Israeli music and hip-hop, from the pioneers of the 1980s and 1990s to today’s diverse …

Rosh Hashanah Reflections on Israel and Torah

September 2, 2025

In our Jewish tradition, the month of Elul, preceding Rosh Hashanah, is a time for preparation for the High Holidays. We listen each day to the sound of the shofar, …

A New Year in Community

September 2, 2025

I love the energy of the start of the school year – the fresh haircuts, stories of summer adventures, and the excitement of meeting new classmates. On the first days …

Food Tourah: Shoftim

August 26, 2025

Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. This week we have the Torah’s 48th …

Food Tourah – Re’eh

August 20, 2025

Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. This week we have the Torah’s 47th …

A Bittersweet Novel of Israel

August 19, 2025

Lihi Lapid’s bestselling Israeli novel, On Her Own, is now available in English, translated by Sondra Silverston. As the book opens, a terrified eighteen-year-old girl, Nina, is cowering in the stairwell …

Food Tourah: Hukkat

July 2, 2025

Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. 39 parshiot down, 15 more to go! …

Herzl & Friends: When Zionism Was New

June 10, 2025

When Rachel Cockerell set out to write a history of her very British family, she was amazed to discover that her great-grandfather had played a crucial role in an early …