Shabbat 19-20 Sep. 2014 How time flies! This Shabbat is already the seventh and last of the 7 Sabbaths of Nechama- Consolation, which is also the last Shabbat before Rosh haShana –beginning of the Hebrew year. Since the common denominator of the last 7 Sabbaths of our year are Haftarot which are taken from the […]
Why Did This Pole Become a Jew?
Anna and I were sitting at a country house outside of Warsaw, Poland. There Beit Warszawa, a congregation of Reform Jews, had gathered to celebrate the Jewish harvest holiday, Succoth. The men had already put up the frame of wood beams for the little Sukkah. The men and children headed into the nearby forest to […]
Chayei Sarah -5775
14th November 2014/21 Cheshvan 5775 Our Torah is “TORAT CHAYIM” –a Torah of Life. It addresses the life of human beings and wastes almost no time on issues such as how angels live in heaven… One of the most basic facts of human life is that all of us are bound to die. Each and […]
Celebrating The Holidays At Beit Warszawa
For information on Beit Warszawa and their events listing, please click here.
Are Non-Jews With Jewish Identities Welcome?
The number of people who believe they are descendants of Jews is almost equal to the number of Jews who are counted in official international censuses, according to British historian Tudor Parfitt, an expert on Judaizing movements, who was a keynote speaker at a Jerusalem conference held in early November at the Van Leer Institute, […]
WaYera – 5775
weAnochi A’far waEfer – I am (merely) dust and ashes When Abraham learns of the Divine intention to wipe out the entire wicked city of Sodom, he entreats before the Supreme Judge to save the city even for the sake of a small minority of righteous people in it. This back and forth verbal exchange […]
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