If we are ‘friends’ on Facebook, you have seen my video updates from Israel. (Click here to get to my FB page for the messages.) This week, I participated in a solidarity mission to Israel led by Gil Preuss, the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. Eight rabbis from the area cleared our …
You’ve seen the video, read the devastating reports and felt the grievance that the Jews under rocket fire seem to matter infinitely less to our media than the innocents in Gaza. It feels like every time that Israel is in the news, they are aggressor, the promulgator, the instigator and the occupier. It’s not quite …
We used to visit Disneyland frequently. My parents grew up in Southern California so family trips from the San Francisco Bay Area were common. Here we are, probably 45 years ago, on a rollercoaster – my mom, me, my cousin Melanie, and my big sister in the front seat of the car. Looking at family …
This is the fifth week of the month. For Reflections Off the Bimah, the fifth week is a bonus and features thought leaders from throughout the Jewish world and beyond. These special posts give you the opportunity to consider important opinions you may not readily encounter. Thursday night / Friday is the 33rd day of …
This is the fourth week of the month. For Reflections Off the Bimah, the fourth week features thought leaders from throughout the Jewish world and beyond. These special posts give you the opportunity to consider important opinions you may not readily encounter. In the wake of the conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin, this blog …
Israel is 73 One of my favorite Israeli broadcast channels is Can 11. They feature intimate interviews with trauma survivors, historical and cultural analyses of holidays such as Pesach and Hannukah. And they have great dramas and comedies as well. Plus you can watch full episodes of their content with Hebrew subtitles, which helps …
By Robin Jacobson. The bestselling new science memoir, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb, probes a thrilling possibility – that a mysterious object that streaked through our solar system in 2017 came from an alien intelligent civilization. Avi Loeb is a world-famous astrophysicist and longtime Harvard professor. Yet as …
By Robin Jacobson. Tevye the Dairyman would fit right in among the rabbis, matchmakers, candlemakers, tailors, and other shtetl types who populate two recent prize-winning novels: The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross and The Slaughterman’s Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits. But if Tevye were living in these novels, he’d need anti-anxiety medication. Not that Tevye didn’t …
A practice within a practice It’s counting time. On the second evening of Pesach we began counting the Omer. What’s an Omer you ask? It’s an ancient allotment of wheat that’s counted over 49 days leading to the harvest at the time of Shavuot and the giving of the Torah. Counting seems like a simple …
This is the fourth week of the month. For Reflections Off the Bimah, the fourth week features thought leaders from throughout the Jewish world and beyond. These special posts give you the opportunity to consider important opinions you may not readily encounter. This week, I bring Yael Leibowitz who has been on the faculty at Yeshiva …
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