As I sat in on the final rehearsal for the Bima To Broadway To Beltway concert listening to a rendition of “Gesher” by Judith Silver, I couldn’t help thinking how cool this concert was going to be. Yes “cool” is absolutely the word for it. Hazzanim Arianne Brown, Elisheva Dienstfry and Hinda Labovitz created this …
In parenting, it is too easy to forget the ‘big picture.’ The immediate overwhelms the senses and focuses my attention on the messy room or the homework assignment not yet begun. Maybe the fabrication of short term emergencies causes an adrenaline surge reminiscent of our ancestors’ ‘fight or flight’ responses… except they were fleeing wild …
Tomorrow night I will be teaching a class for Tikkun Leil Shavuot on the beauty of Nusach ( The Soul of Jewish Music) as I call it. Before we continue, some definitions are in order. Like many concepts in Jewish practice, Nusach can have a few different meanings. It can refer literally to the text of …
This is the fifth week of the month and allows for another outside blog. This 2011 post in eJewishPhilanthropy was written by Rabbi Michael Comins, the founder of TorahTrek: The Center for Jewish Wilderness Spirituality. As we are shifting to summer, we will have many opportunities to enjoy the outdoors. Make sure to appreciate the …
This week 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. As we are entering the Memorial Day weekend, this blog was originally posted …
I once had a colleague that said- tongue and cheek- the reason he became a Rabbi was to make the service seem faster- since it always seems to progress more quickly when one is on the Bima. True, it does. But I quite like it in the pews as well, where I don’t have to …
Hate has no home here. I cannot repeat this statement often enough, forcefully enough or loudly enough. As we recognized Yom HaSHoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, this week, cried at the anti-Semitic terror attack on Chabad of Poway last Shabbat, were disappointed by two students at Whitman High School who posted a picture of themselves …
By Robin Jacobson. On a London train platform in the late 1930s, future children’s author Michael Bond noticed a sad huddle of Jewish refugee children with identity tags dangling from their necks. These vulnerable children inspired his beloved fictional character, Paddington, a young refugee bear who alights at Paddington Station wearing a tag with the …
This week is the fourth week of the month. For Reflections Off the Bimah, the fourth week features thought leaders from throughout the Jewish world. These special posts give you the opportunity to consider important opinions you may not readily encounter. As we are in the midst of Passover, I am bringing a piece by Rabbi …
Rabbis and Cantors are known for reusing material for sermons, songs, teachings, concerts, what have you. I usually try to avoid that if I can absolutely help it; sometimes, though, if I get in a bind, I will bring something from one presentation and use it with another group. That being said, this throwaway line …
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