by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 6, 2022 | Psalms, Education, God, Prayer
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, Vayeitzei, Happiness and Joy, Kindness and Compassion, Leadership, Responsibility
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 31, 2022 | Deuteronomy, Education
Anyone who has children knows that if you want them to learn something, telling them once is never enough. Singing the alphabet over and over, repeating math tables, and repeating mnemonics are all part of the learning process. They become so ingrained that they...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 18, 2022 | Community, Covenant, Education, Yitro, Fear of God, God
When Moses presented the Jews with the prospect of receiving the Torah at Sinai, they respond: “All that Hashem has spoken we will do!” (Exodus 19:8). This expression of acceptance was repeated and expanded in a phrase that has characterized Jewish observance...
by Mordi Levi | f 3, 2021 | Va'etchanan, Education, Revelation and Prophecy
In the midst of his farewell speeches to the Children of Israel, Moses charges them to “take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day” (Deuteronomy 6:6). Though he says he is commanding them to keep the instructions “this day,” the commandments had...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 28, 2017 | Antisemitism, Education, Faith, God, Israel, Temple
When the United Nations (UN), in October 2016, passed a contentious anti-Israel resolution denying the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and Western Wall in Jerusalem, I decided to go full-steam-ahead and “Bombard Them With Bibles”. With your help, I visited the...
