Dear Friends:
The double parasha of this week begins with Moshe assembling the whole Israelite community. The opening verse alerts us to the nature of community in Judaism.
Over the past 10 days in Morocco, I have gained a new perspective on how community is formed and enhanced.
Our …
Dear Friends:
On Shabbat, I walked to the Slat El Azuna Synagogue, one of only two synagogues left in Marrakesh, once home to 35 places of Jewish worship.
As I went through this fascinating medieval city with our wonderful guide, Michal Granot, through the "medina" and into the "mellah…
"And Mordechai wrote these things...to command them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar...the days that the Jews had rest from their enemies...and turned from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning to a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladn…
In the aftermath of the massacre of 12 people at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and then the Islamist terrorist attack at a kosher supermarket in the elegant suburb of Saint-Mande, hard against Paris's eastern fringe, two days later, when four Jews were murdered a…
Maybe you have seen this before:
In October, 1995, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, was traveling off the coast of Newfoundland.
Canadians: "Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid collision."
Americans: "Recommend you divert your co…
