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May 1, 2016

Bread and Counting the Omer

In the Book of Deuteronomy, we read: [God] subjected you to the hardship of hunger and then gave you manna to eat. . . in order to teach you that

April 27, 2016

Dear Friends, We all have memories that we hold near and dear to our hearts. Some may seem more significant than others, but all find their way into a grand

April 20, 2016

Dear Friends, This Friday night, Jews around the world will gather with family and friends at their Passover Seders and sing, Dayeinu. The word Dayeinu means “enough,” and the song

April 13, 2016

Dear Friends, Passover begins on Friday evening April 22, but Jews around the world begin preparing for Passover many weeks ahead of time. One way to prepare involves the custom

April 6, 2016

Dear Friends, In this week’s Torah portion, Tazria, the Torah addresses a wide variety of skin diseases, providing us with a lens into an ancient world where sickness seemed incurable

April 1, 2016

A Jewish State and Democracy

Our presidential primaries over the course of the past few months have been unseemly, vicious and at times undignified. The truth is that during election years, candidates on all sides

March 30, 2016

Dear Friends, In this week’s Torah portion, two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, take it upon themselves to present their own personal sacrificial offerings to God. In contrast to

March 23, 2016

Dear Friends, Yesterday’s terrorist attacks in Belgium are yet another reminder of the fact that evil festers in all corners of the world. The three explosions that were set off

March 16, 2016

Dear Friends, We often think of Purim as a “holiday for the kids,” and while the carnivals and merrymaking certainly lend themselves to a more pediatric level of Jewish holiday

March 9, 2016

Dear Friends, During the early 1600’s, an Italian Jewish composer named Salomone Rossi created a body of liturgical music unlike anything the Jewish world had ever experienced. His compositions drew

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