Parashat Devarim: Perhaps Moses forgot?
During my vacation in Berlin I was having a conversation with a friend where we were reminiscing about some events from our past. While we, broadly speaking, remembered the event…

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During my vacation in Berlin I was having a conversation with a friend where we were reminiscing about some events from our past. While we, broadly speaking, remembered the event…
In Parashat Mas’ei, we read a review of the Israelite’s journeys through their forty years in the desert. It is important to understand that the journey was not orchestrated by…
This Friday we begin a new month of Av, it means that Days of Awe are approaching us. Traditionally during the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur we see many congregants…
Wow! What a week it has been! SACRED and our co-applicants reached an out of court settlement in the Equality Court case, against the Board of Deputies. The Board of…
How many times have we meant to call our legislator, wanted to sign that petition but let it fall to the bottom of our e-mail inbox, planned to sign up…
Parashat Balak (last week’s reading) has quite a disturbing end. The short chapter reads like a report that predicts the end of “Project Exodus”. The situation in the camp is…
What does Shabbat mean to us? Why do we need this day of rest? Carly L. Goldberg in her essay touched these important questions. “Busy”: It’s a word that rolls off my…
Reading Parashat Chukkat, we engage ourselves quite often in the discussion of Moses’ big mistake which resulted in God’s severe punishment. Why is he prohibited to enter the promised land,…
This week we are going to celebrate the 80th birthday of Temple Israel. What a great milestone! I have over the years been involved on a regular basis at Temple…
I think it’s fair to say that just about everybody knows that the Israelites were condemned to wander in the wilderness for forty years – a biblical generation. But what…