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My best friend from childhood, David, is a Tottenham Hotspurs supporter. Now I know that I’ve lost some of you already, but to translate that means he roots for an English soccer team known affectionally as Spurs. I, on the other hand, am a lifelong Liverpool supporter. They are, of course, Boston’s team as part Continue Reading »
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by Rabbi Danny Burkeman & Alison Weikel Originally posted on JewishBoston.com Recently we were both witness to a discussion on a Jewish Facebook page as a parent asked a question about looking into Hebrew school options for her first-grader. Forty-four comments (and counting) later it was clear there were a lot of people seeking to Continue Reading »
I have seen a sign. And I am sorry to tell you it wasn’t a good one. No, don’t worry it wasn’t that kind of sign, it was an actual physical sign, the type you put out on your front lawn. And in six simple words it symbolizes everything that is wrong with our society Continue Reading »
Thanks to two generous grants from the Combined Jewish Philanthropies and the Commonwealth Nonprofit Security Grant Program, the Early Learning Center was able to make almost $20,000 worth of upgrades to the security and safety systems. Click here to read more.
by Rabbi Jordi Schuster Battis There is a poem by Yehudah Amichai called “The Diameter of the Bomb” that talks about the circles of impact of a single explosion. He wrote— The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. Continue Reading »
A story is told of six blind men who were fascinated by elephants.[1] They had heard so many tales of these majestic creatures, but of course they had never seen one. One day word came to them that an elephant had arrived in town and so they all set out to meet the animal. The first Continue Reading »
It started in Israel as so many innovations and moments of progress often do. Once again, they were the leaders and the ones who were blazing a path for the rest of the world to follow. It began with a new type of photograph shared on social media. A picture of two masked people, one Continue Reading »