by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 19, 2022 | Bible Study
By Chaim Barzel This week we start reading the Torah over again from the beginning. At the end of each day of creation, the Bible counts the day: ‘one day’, ‘second day’, ‘third day’, ‘fourth day’… In Psalm 90, Moses...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 13, 2022 | Bible Study
By Elie Mischel When the Communists took control of Russia in 1917, they quickly moved to suppress one of Communism’s greatest internal enemies – the practice of Judaism. With each passing year, the Communists outlawed more and more of the practice of Judaism....
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 11, 2022 | Community, Psalms, Sukkot, Temple
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz I grew up reading the Tolkein series, so when I first set foot in a Yeshiva (school for Torah study) and saw a room full of bearded men learning in a strange language from huge tomes, I was thrilled. I was in Gandalf’s academy. Though I never...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 11, 2022 | Bible Study
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz I distinctly remember my first Sukkot holiday (Feast of Tabernacles) in Israel. I had arrived a few months earlier at Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu directly from Manhattan. The day before the holiday, tables were set up in front of the synagogue and...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 11, 2022 | Education, Parenting, Sukkot, Vayeilech
By Elie Mischel Today, the second day of the Sukkot holiday immediately following the Sabbatical year, is a very special day – a “once in seven years” kind of day! In Biblical times, every seven years, immediately following the Sabbatical year, the people of...
