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 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 29, 2022 | Faith, Humility, Israel, Leadership, Vayeilech
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz The world is going through a crisis in leadership. So many countries are struggling with essential issues. Israel is about to go to the polls for the fifth time in three years. Great Britain just lost Queen Elizabeth who, until her death, was...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 2, 2022 | Community, Covenant, Education, God, Israel, Leadership, Shoftim
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz Since I was a young boy, I have loved reading books. I became intimately familiar with every book in my parents’ library, treating each like a dear friend. Each book had its special place on the shelf and the library, in its entirety,...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 15, 2022 | Eikev, Faith, Leadership
I was thirty-nine years old and determined to get married. Being religious and in yeshiva (school for Jewish studies), arranged dates were the way to go and I had been on hundreds of them. Usually, two meetings at a coffee house were enough to determine that there was...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 2, 2022 | Devarim, Humility, Leadership, Responsibility
“Vote for me and get a free puppy!” Can you imagine a politician campaigning on that platform? But the fact is that many politicians campaign on promises that are not much better than that. Vote for me and I will give you free stuff. Vote for me and I will bring world...
