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Not ever-dying. Ever-evolving, ever-adapting, and ever-reforming In 1948, the Jewish thinker Simon Rawidowicz wrote a paper entitled: “Israel, the Ever-dying People”.[1] In the aftermath of the Holocaust, one might have thought that he was talking about the fact that we as a community have faced challenges from the outside who have sought to destroy kill Continue Reading »
By Janet Polansky Chestnut Hill, MA My grandfather’s story as i know it comes from bits and pieces that my mother told me over the years. I was close to my grandfather but only experienced him as an old man, he was our Zayde. He died at the age of 76 when I was six Continue Reading »
Board of Trustees Meeting Drash: Sh’mini By Sasha Tulgan, Early Learning Center Trustee This week we read Sh’mini (the Eighth Day). To briefly summarize this portion, Aaron and his sons follow Moses’s instructions and offer sacrifices so G-d will forgive the people. Two of Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, offer “alien fire” to G-d and Continue Reading »
Rabbi Jordana Schuster Battis Temple Shir Tikva, Wayland, MA Kabbalat Shabbat • March 11, 2022 • 9 Adar II 5782 This week’s Torah portion, Vayikra, the very beginning of the book of Leviticus, is notoriously difficult to make sense of from a modern point of view. The topic is animal sacrifices: sacrifices for saying thank Continue Reading »
Board of Trustees Meeting Drash- February 2022 Beth Cohen, Trustee for New Membership This week’s Torah Portion, P’kudei, concludes the book of Exodus. The last two chapters are a summary of the instructions regarding the details of building the tabernacle, which was the portable sanctuary that the Israelites carried with them through the Wilderness. At Continue Reading »
Rabbi Jordana Schuster Battis Temple Shir Tikva, Wayland, MA Kabbalat Shabbat • February 25, 2022 • 25 Adar I 5782 Ukraine: Study War No More (Parashat Vayakhel) When I was in 8th grade, my teacher at Monday Night School—that was the teen program back then at Temple Beth Israel in Pomona, CA—gave each of us Continue Reading »
United Parish of Brookline February 13, 2022 Rabbi Danny: It is always such a joy and a privilege to be here with our friends at the United Parish in Brookline. Thank you to Pastors Amy Norton and Kent French and to Minister of Music Susan DeSelms for the warmth of welcome that we have received. Continue Reading »