“According to ancient tradition,Yom Kippur commemorates the day God forgave our people after the sin of worshipping the Golden Calf. For even after Moses, out of great disappointment, shattered the Tablets containing the Ten Commandments, G-d replaced them with a second set. Indeed, when w…
Rabbi Eric Woodward
Bet El-Keser Israel (BEKI)
We’re told by Rabbi Pinkhas of Koretz that every day, we should look ourselves in the mirror and ask: Heyhan ani Be’Olami? Where am I in my own world?
The past year-and-a-half of pandemic has brought all of us trauma, stress, and fear.
B…
by Clifford Wolff
For many refugees, getting a driver’s license is a rite of passage in becoming American. While most of us who grew up here learned from our parents or at school, for the adult JCARR refugees, we volunteers teach them to drive.
First comes the “knowledge test…
by Maya Zanger-Nadis
Shalom New Haven Interim Editor
The ritual items used on the High Holidays—shofar, machzor, or perhaps a kitel—are all simple, uniform items with little room for personalization. But there are small ways to enhance our aesthetic experience of Tishrei. Westville’…
New Haven native, Dr. Jeffrey Levinson has been promoted to be the General Studies Principal at Mesivta Yesodei HaTorah (MYH) in Naugatuck, CT. MYH, in its own words, is“a yeshiva for the motivated bochur [student] who desires to learn and grow as a ben Torah and aspires …
