admin | January 20, 2022
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, spoke of love and gratitude at a Jan. 17 healing service showing a familiar quality to Ohio rabbis who knew him in his youth, as a rabbinical student and today
admin | January 20, 2022
By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks zt"l In the House of Lords there is a special chamber used as, among other things, the place where new Peers are robed before their introduction into the House.
admin | January 20, 2022
I found out that Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three others had been taken hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Tex.
admin | January 11, 2022
The Babylonian Talmuds lesser-known counterpart the Jerusalem Talmud is getting its moment in the limelight with the introduction of its first and only complete online manuscript, along with full English and French translations. Released late last month by Sefaria, a nonprofit offering free access to Jewish texts, the Jerusalem Talmud joins its Babylonian cousin, which Sefaria previously made available online. As a Jewish text the Talmud, an ancient collection of rabbinic interpretations on matters of faith and religious law, has never been known for its accessibility
admin | January 11, 2022
Rabbi Hillel Skolnik| Special to The Columbus Dispatch It is an old joke within the Jewish community that if you put three people in a room, youll hear four opinions.
admin | January 11, 2022
Like other Jewish holidays, the festival of Tu BShvat the 15th day of the month of Shevat has undergone changes since its first mention in the Jewish legal corpus known as the Mishnah, some 1,700 years ago. There, it was described as the New Year for the Tree.
admin | January 11, 2022
The recent demands to retroactively legalize Homesh as an appropriate Zionist response to the recent terror attack in which yeshiva student Yehuda Dimentman was killed put the young settlement issue back in the news. The term young settlements (hityashvut tzeira in Hebrew) is PR verbal laundering coined to try and give a veneer of respectability to the dozens of illegal outposts that dot the hills all over Judea and Samaria
admin | January 11, 2022
When he began writing about ethical wills in the 1970s, former San Diego Rabbi Jack Riemer would spend much of his time explaining this ancient Jewish tradition before he could even get into the notion of writing one of your own. Regular wills pass on your valuables, he would tell them, but ethical wills pass on your values
admin | January 11, 2022
Parashat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16)By Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum | January 5, 2022 Turn it and turn it for everything is in it, we read in Pirkei Avot 5:22it being the Torah. Elsewhere in Pirkei Avot we read, Torah kneged kulam, Torah is relevant to everything
admin | January 4, 2022
Tractate of the Talmud about blessings and prayers, particularly the Shema and the Amidah Berakhot (Hebrew: , romanized:Brakhot, lit. "Blessings") is the first tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud
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