by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 23, 2024 | Education, Faith, Va'etchanan
Alert: Too many translations! Whenever we find a word that is translated differently by various Bible translations there is a good chance that the Hebrew word in question is worthy of study. This makes sense. If a word is straightforward and easy to translate in...
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 6, 2022 | Education, God, Prayer, Psalms
A few years ago, I was in Tel Aviv visiting a friend. After a pleasant afternoon, I decided to have a coffee at a sidewalk cafe before heading home. I was engaging in people-watching when I noticed that someone was watching me in return. A young man with tiny...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 30, 2022 | Community, Education, Happiness and Joy, Kindness and Compassion, Leadership, Responsibility, Vayeitzei
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz Israel just held its fifth election in three years. For a while now, Israel has been struggling to find a leader who can form and maintain a coalition made up of different parties, each with their own interests and priorities. These parties...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 23, 2022 | Community, Education, God, Good and Evil, Happiness and Joy, Hebrew Language, Psalms
By Rabbi Avi Baumol Much has been written about the first Psalm. Rav Yudan, a fourth century Palestinian scholar, considered it “the choicest of all Psalms.” That being said, it is incumbent upon us to understand the uniqueness of this poem, and why King David began...
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...
