Proudly Jewish - Proudly Progressive
Proudly Jewish - Proudly Progressive
Once a month students from the Bet David Introduction to Judaism Course (ITJ) will write for the Ad Kan. Yola Tome’s contribution: Parashat Mattot speaks of making a vow to the Lord. Whether woman or man you are bound to…
Leviticus 1:1-5:26 (Reading Lev. 5:5–5:26 Plaut p.660; Hertz p.410) Haftarah for Shabbat Ha Chodesh: Ezekiel 45:16-25 (Plaut p.1457; Hertz p.1001) This Shabbat we start with the reading of the third book of the Torah, called Leviticus, or in our Jewish…
If you have missed the last “Devotion” by Rabbi Schell at Radio Today, or if you like to hear it again, you may find the Podcast here: The D’var Torah is providing a general introduction to the third book…
Rabbi Schell’s Dvar Torah in this week’s Jewish Report:
If you have missed the last “Devotion” by Rabbi Schell at Radio Today, or if you like to hear it again, you may find the Podcast here:…/2015-03-11T02_34_28-07_00 The D’var Torah is focusing on the Jewish Temple, it’s Progressive Jewish conception…
If you have missed the last “Devotion” by Rabbi Schell at Radio Today, or if you like to hear it again, you may find the Podcast here: the sermon focus on the lesson we can derrive from the Golden Calf…
Torah Comment Parashat Mishpatim Exodus 21:1 – 24:18 (Reading Ex. 23:26–24:18 Plaut p.522; Hertz p.319) Haftarah Shabbat Shekalim 2 Kings 12:5-16 (Plaut p.1451; Hertz p.993) After last weeks Revelation at Sinai, and the giving of the Ten Commandments, after the…
Our Torah portion this morning describes that glorious moment in time when the Israelites, just having been emancipated from Egypt, cross the Red Sea in such a miraculous manner that it caused Moses, Mirijam and the people to break out…
In Parashat “Bo”(Go) Moses and Aaron continue to plead with Pharaoh to let the Israelites go free. Because Pharoah refuses, God is is co-erced into raining down the last plagues onto the Egyptians: the plague of locusts, darkness, and finally,…
In parashat Va’era („And I appeared“) we learn more about the relationship between God and the Jewish people and about the promise to give the Land of Israel to the people. God tells Moses that the time has come to…