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October 08, 2011 I love ‘Keeping the Faith.’ That is a true statement, and it is also the title of a movie directed by Edward Norton, starring Ben Stiller, Jenna Elfman and Norton. It’s about three people who became friends in the eighth grade in New York City. As the years progress, Stiller and Norton Continue Reading »
October 07, 2011 One of the most remarkable places in Israel is located in Jaffa, adjacent to Tel Aviv. It is a combination theatre and restaurant, and it is called the Nalaga’at Center. Nalaga’at means “Please touch.” It opened in 2007 and most of the 70 people on its staff are deaf or blind, and Continue Reading »
September 29, 2011 A month ago, on August 28th, the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington D.C. was formally dedicated. It extols the man whose speech, “I Have A Dream,” delivered in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, electrified the country. The first sentence contains a direct reference to President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Continue Reading »
September 28, 2011 The advertising campaign of one of the largest telecommunication companies in the world is based upon the question, “Can you hear me now?” It addresses our concern that in an age of instant communication, we might be out of touch. In 1982, the poster that announced the arrival of a movie directed Continue Reading »
September 11, 2011 “A day of darkness and gloom; a day of cloud and shadows, spread like soot over the hills…their vanguard a consuming fire, in their wake a devouring flame” {Joel 2:2-3}. Those are the words of Joel, a Hebrew prophet from the 9th century BCE, describing a plague of locusts followed by drought Continue Reading »
February 04, 2011 Two months ago, on Friday, December 17th {2010}, I participated in my monthly 10am kabbalat Shabbat service at the Federation Early Learning Center, and then spent the remainder of the morning and early afternoon preparing discussion packets that would accompany readings by our 8th and 9th grade students at our Shabbat service Continue Reading »
September 18, 2010 Two months ago, mid-July, we arrived at the last Torah Portion in the Book of Numbers. It is there, in the 33rd chapter, that one finds a lengthy list of the names of every one of the places that we encamped in the wilderness: 42 in total, enumerated in 49 verses. It Continue Reading »
September 09, 2010 In the late 1970s, leaders of Reform synagogues and the Union for Reform Judaism – the former Union of American Hebrew Congregations – were exploring ways to establish Reform Jewish day schools throughout the United States because research has consistently shown that the best ways to strengthen Jewish identity in children and Continue Reading »
September 08, 2010 Four months ago, I was driving down Broad Street on my way into town, when I noticed the driver in the car to my right trying to get my attention by gesturing at me with rapid hand motions. Once he caught my eye, he momentarily took his hands off the steering wheel Continue Reading »
May 18, 2010 As parents, we push you to excel, all the while trying to define the fine line that acknowledges your growing independence with our need to continue to teach and inspire you; and in quiet moments we realize that there are times it is you who teach and inspire us: tonight and into Continue Reading »