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. 38 parshiot down, 16 more to go! In Korach, a Levite leads a rebellion against Moses with 250 of the Israelites. They claim that all the Israelites are holy, and that Moses …
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. 37 parshiot down, 17 more to go! Shelach (“Send”) opens with G-d commanding Moses to send a leader from each tribe to scout the land of Canaan, each one named individually. Moses …
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. 36 parshiot down, 18 more to go! Beha’alotekha (“When You Raise”) is chock full of details – we will highlight some of the main points. It opens with G-d instructing Moses to …
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 20th century Zionist project called the Galveston Plan. This was the origin of Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land, Cockerell’s innovative work of …
On Sunday, May 11, our congregation celebrated Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, with a love-filled and voices-lifted program featuring our Religious School students in grades K-5. Our shaliach, Yoel Gleizer, led the children in singing a range of Israeli classics, including Shabbat BaBoker and Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu, culminating in Hatikvah, featuring a fifth-grader soloist. …
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. 35 parshiot down, 19 more to go! Naso (“Take a Census”) is the longest parsha in the Torah. It begins with a count of the Levite clans and details their various responsibilities …
In the 1990s, American playwright and screenwriter Alice Austen was working as a lawyer in Brussels. Some elderly neighbors in her elegant Beaux Arts apartment building befriended her, inviting her regularly for afternoon tea. They regaled Austen with stories of the apartment building during World War II, when Germany occupied Belgium. During the war, residents of the …
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. 34 parshiot down, 20 more to go! Bamidbar (“In The Desert”) is the first parsha in the book of Numbers. In it, G-d instructs Moses and Aaron to take a census of …
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. Yet again we have a double portion which results in the 32nd and 33rd parshiot down, 21 more to go! These are also the last two parshiot in Leviticus! Behar introduces the …
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. 31 parshiot down, 23 more to go! Parshat Emor details the rules surrounding priestly conduct, including restrictions on mourning, marriage, and who may consume sacrificial offerings. It also specifies the physical conditions …
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