admin | February 28, 2020
Lets face it if you need inspiration before going out on a date or asking someone to marry you, it is unlikely that you will look for such inspiration in a collection of volumes containing Jewish law and a range of idiosyncratic narratives and there is nowhere in the Talmud where you can find love-inducing poetry or compelling romantic prose. But there may be at least one exception.
admin | February 28, 2020
Photo Credit: Jewish Press Speak to Bnei Yisrael and let them take for Me a portion, from every man whose heart inspires him to generositygold, silver, and copper; turquoise, purple and scarlet wool; linen and goat hair; red-dyed ram skins, tachash skins, acacia wood, oil, spices, incense; shoham stones and stones for the settings (Shemos 25:2-7).
admin | February 28, 2020
As the Jewish world prepares to celebrate Purim on Monday night, March 9, and Tuesday, March 10 (a day later in Jerusalem), a new edition of the Megillah (The Scroll of Esther) offers a comprehensive new look at the Purim story, including fascinating insights in the light of Chassidism. Translated and interpolated by Rabbi Yosef Marcus, with additional material by Rabbi Eli Block, the volume includes a new commentary anthologized from Talmud, Midrash and classic Rabbinic commentators, as well as insights from the Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbes, and is copiously annotated and with a sweeping bibliography of sources and comprehensive indices.
admin | February 28, 2020
In this weeks Torah portion, Truma, we are swept into a world that is foreign to modern man, though magical and wondrous.We read detailed instructions for building the mishkan, the Tabernacle the temporary temple that accompanied the Jewish nation until the permanent Temple was built on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.The instructions included the Tabernacles area, height, what its walls would be made of, how the wooden boards would be connected to one another, what its ceiling would be made of, and how its opening should be closed; which ritual utensils it would contain, what these utensils would be made of, their exact size, what they would be used for and where they would be situated.We cant help but wonder: Why do you we need to know all these details?The sages of the Talmud and midrash dealt with these issues through an ideological-symbolic perspective. In their opinion, every detail represents a specific essence that exists in reality in every generation and in every culture.
admin | February 28, 2020
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cant sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cant sleep with the window open. George Bernard ShawNow I know many of you, when seeing China in the headline, figured that I would write about coronavirus. Well I did two weeks ago, and my advice hasnt changed
admin | February 28, 2020
To call Eat Something a cookbook would do it a disservice. It is much more than that. Subtitled A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews and co-written by Wise Sons co-owner Evan Bloom and S.F.-based freelance writer Rachel Levin, the book of course includes recipes from the local favorite Jewish deli, founded as a pop-up in 2010.
admin | February 28, 2020
Weve got a whole list of fun things to do this March as the weather warms up (fingers crossed), so be sure to make the most of it! What:Its National Adoption Weekend in Canada, and PetSmarts across the country are hoping to find homes for their furry friends.
admin | February 28, 2020
In 1952, on South La Brea Avenue, a restaurant called Robaires opened for business.
admin | February 28, 2020
By Joel Davidi Weisberger | February 27, 2020 This piece will focus on how and why some Ashkenazic Jewsboth religious and (later) secularadopted the Sephardic pronunciation of Hebrew because they deemed it superior to the Ashkenazi one.
admin | February 28, 2020
The American Sephardi Federation's New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival (NYSJFF) honored iconic fashion designer Elie Tahari, as well as filmmaker Keren Yedaya, with Pomegranate Awards for Sephardi Excellence in the Arts, each sculpted by internationally acclaimed, Baghdad-born artist Oded Halahmy, at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th St., New York, NY 10011). On Opening Night (February 23rd at 6pm), Elie Tahari received the Pomegranate Lifetime Achievement Award for Fashion Designer and filmmaker Keren Yedaya (winner of the Camra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival) received the Pomegranate Award for Director
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