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. Once again we have a double portion which results in the 29th and 30th parshiot down, 24 more to go! Acharei Mot opens after the death of Aaron’s two sons who died …
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. We have reached the halfway point. This week’s double portion includes that 27th and 28th parshiot down, 26 more to go! The focus of these two portions is how diseases that affect …
As the 39th World Jewish Congress Election continues, with voting open until May 4, we asked Mercaz representative Tammy Gottlieb, vice chair of Women of the Wall and member of the World Zionist Organization Executive, about some issues at stake at this pivotal time for the State of Israel. Mercaz USA (Slate 17) represents 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. 26 parshiot down, 28 more to go! The name of the parsha, Shemini, means eighth and refers to the eighth day at the end of the ordination ceremony, when Aaron and his …
For millions around the globe, the face of Anne Frank – bright, sensitive, and all-too-young – is instantly recognizable. For many, she represents the six million Jews, including 1.5 million children, murdered in the Shoah. But for many others, she has become a generic symbol of innocent suffering, invoked for a dizzying array of causes. …
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. 25 parshiot down, 29 more to go! Tzav gives greater detail to the five sacrifices that were mentioned in last week’s portion, Vayikra. It continues to describe the contents of what is …
At the first World Zionist Congress in November 1897, Theodor Herzl proclaimed his vision for the reestablishment of the State of Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people. Fifty years later, on November 29, 1947, the United Nations voted to partition the mandate of Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, paving …
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. 24 parshiot down, 30 more to go! Full steam ahead into the third book of the Torah! In Vayikra (“He Called”), the first portion of Leviticus, God elaborates to Moses the various …
By Rabbi Deborah Megdal. If you ask our youngest Religious School students “Why do we celebrate Passover?” they might start by singing the refrain: “frogs here, frogs there, frogs are jumping everywhere!” — a popular children’s song about Pharaoh and the apparently hilarious second plague. But I assure you that if you nudge them to …
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. 23 parshiot down, 31 more to go! Pekudei is the final parsha that deals with building the Mishkan – it also happens to be the final parsha in Exodus, the second book …
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