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Atah Chonen: A Prayer for Wisdom
From My Jewish Learning
Prayer offers us a daily opportunity to embrace God with words while seeking — through the language of petition and supplication — a way to articulate our most profound needs. It is in the searching and… Continue reading
Inviting the Presence: A Drasha for Rosh HaShanah 5781
By Reb Daniel Lev
In Deuteronomy 30:11-14 it says: “For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say: ‘Who… Continue reading
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life Well Lived
By Sid Goldstein
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020. She was arguably, the most important Jewish supreme court justice since Felix Frankfurter. Judge Ginsberg lived an extraordinary life. In her roles as both a litigator and… Continue reading
Rosh HaShanah Drash: 9.20.2020
By Avi Soifer
In a time of crisis: “Don’t just stand there, do something!”—A response, I think from Truah: Don’t just do something, stand there. I think of the ancient religions of Mesopotamia: “[T]he sign of the god… Continue reading
Sof as a Community
By Sandra Z. Armstrong
As a community we have remained close, stayed together and reached incredible heights of ruach, creating uplifting, joyous zoom Shabbats for the last six months. Our experiences and spiritual connections on zoom are a community achievement… Continue reading
The Jewish Holidays following Yom Kippur
| Friday evening, October 2 | Erev Sukkot |
| Saturday, October 3 | Shabbat Sukkot |
| Sunday, October 4 | Sukkot Festival Day |
| Monday-Friday, October 5-9 | Chol HaMoed regular workdays during Sukkot. |
| Friday evening, October 9 | Shemini Atseret into Saturday October 10 |
| Saturday night October 10… Continue reading |
- The Royal Road to Relational SpiritualityThis is a 10 session course taught in 2019. Click here to purchase full course recordings. Click here for a free download of first session. Derekh HaMelekh— “The Royal Road”—is a collection of Shabbat and holiday teachings by Reb Kalanymous Kalman Shapira, who was the “Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto” as well as a major […]
- Rising Above Isolation: The Piaseczner Rebbe’s Shavuot Torah of ConnectionDates and Times: Tuesdays – May 12, May 19, May 267 – 8 pm EST Cost: Pay-what-you-can Presenter: Rabbi Dr. Natan Margalit Description: We’ll learn together an amazing Shavuot Torah by Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapiro, the Piaseczner Rebbe, also known for being the Hasidic Rebbe in the Warsaw Ghetto during the horrific years of the Holocaust. In this Torah he explores […]
- David Dinkins, NYC’s first Black mayor who was embattled by Crown Heights riots, dies at 93Dinkins was known for — and dogged by — his response to the 1991 riots in the Black and Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights The post David Dinkins, NYC’s first Black mayor who was embattled by Crown Heights riots, dies at 93 appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
- Amsterdam’s Jewish museum wades into Dutch blackface controversy with new exhibitionThe exhibition shows that the man who first depicted the controversial Black Pete character penned a popular series of anti-Semitic booklets. The post Amsterdam’s Jewish museum wades into Dutch blackface controversy with new exhibition appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency.