by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 13, 2022 | Purim
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz Kalman was a dear friend of mine. Though I treasured his friendship, he was operating on an entirely different plane of existence. For example, one day we were walking down the street when a car pulled up. Some guy stuck his head out of a car...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 12, 2022 | Israel, Leadership, Psalms
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz I love living in Israel and have no desire to travel abroad. For me, studying Israel’s geography and travelling the land is a religious experience. Allow me to explain. My first visit to Israel was in 1978 when I was 17 years old. My youth...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 11, 2022 | Education, Vayeishev
I was the chef at a Jerusalem steak house with a modest reputation for several years. A young man came to the restaurant one day looking for a job. He had just completed a relatively expensive one-year course at a local cooking school but other than that, he needed to...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 8, 2022 | Israel
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz Learning Torah with my ten-year-old son is a challenging experience. He asks the obvious questions that are disturbingly difficult to answer. “Abba, did God promise all of Israel to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?” he asked. “You know he did,” I...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 8, 2022 | Faith, God, Psalms
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz My ten-year-old son grew up on the Tolkien trilogy. So I guess I should not have been surprised when we got a flat tire and, as we stood by the side of the road, my son looked up to the sky and asked, “Where are the eagles of Manwë to carry...
