admin | August 30, 2022
Sales of recreational marijuana are expected to begin soon on Long Island, another step in the legalization of cannabis in New York for adults 21 and older. This weeks clergy discuss what Scripture says and doesnt say about the drug previously legalized for medicinal prescription.
admin | August 13, 2022
Parshat Veeschanan contains probably the most well-known verse of the Torah, the Shema.
admin | August 13, 2022
An American rabbi who lived and worked in China for over a decade is fighting antisemitism on Chinese social media using educational videos. Rabbi Matt Trusch was sharing Jewish parables in fluent Mandarin on Douyin (Chinas version of TikTok) from his Texas home last year when he came across users spouting Jewish stereotypes online
admin | August 13, 2022
I am writing this piece in the run up to Tisha BAv (the ninth of Av)the saddest day in the Jewish calendar.
admin | August 13, 2022
Long before becoming a rabbi, Frankie Sandmel organized events like Havdalah with a social justice slant. Now Rabbi Sandmel and their partner, Elaina Marshalek, will do some of that and more as community-builders at Base, an initiative that aims to reach young Jews outside of the synagogue. Already with nine outposts in places such as Chicago, Brooklyn, Harlem and Miami, Base now has its first Bay Area location in the sunny Oakland home that Sandmel, 32, and Marshalek, 31, moved into last month, next door to the Moishe House in Rockridge (and adjacent to the future home of the JCC of the East Bay).
admin | August 13, 2022
With the approach of the Yamim Noraim of 5783/2022, the first time we will have services back to normal post-COVID shule restrictions and closures, all shule-goers are looking forward to hearing the familiar sounds of chazanut in each and every shule that they are used to attending. However, Melbourne Jewry in particular is looking forward to a taste of imported chazanut
admin | August 13, 2022
TheTorah columnis supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek in memory of Kenneth Gordon.VaetchananDeuteronomy 3:23-7:11 Love is in the air on Tu BAv, the 15th of Av, a joyous minor holiday that in Second Temple times marked the start of the grape harvest.
admin | August 10, 2022
Devarim, 5:7: You shall not recognize other gods in My Presence.Devarim, 6:4: Hear, Israel, HaShem is our G-d, HaShem in the One and Only. Two of the most well-known passages in the Torah appear in this weeks Torah portion: The Ten Commandments and the Shema
admin | August 10, 2022
If you want to know what evil is true, unmitigated evil, you need to look no further than Gaza, where one of the many Arab terrorist organizations launched about a thousand rockets against Israel in the last week. Each rocket was intended to terrorize.
admin | August 10, 2022
Elana Dykewomon hoped to see her first play staged before she passed away from cancer. I would like to see it at least have a reading before I die, which I expect to do, she told J. matter-of-factly in an interview last month
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