Download Weekly Study MaterialsDepending on when you receive this email, we would be remiss if we didn't include in the class-notes-attachment what we now know as the second sacred and historical festival of the Jewish calendar. We have spent an inordinate amount of time in our gatherings pouring … [Read more...]

Download Weekly Study Materials In honor of Shavu'ot this Sunday evening, I wanted to introduce a new young Israeli singer, songwriter, and composer from the town of Ashdot in Israel, Yuval Dayan (יובל דיין).  When she was interviewed about this song, she said that it was inspired by what Ruth had … [Read more...]

Download Weekly Study Materials Pirke Avot Chapter 2, Siman 5 . . . וּבְמָקוֹם שֶׁאֵין אֲנָשִׁים, הִשְׁתַּדֵּל לִהְיוֹת אִיש: In a place where there is no man, strive to be a man . . . in Yiddish: 'zai a mensch' in a place where no one is . . . In a world devoid of humanity, Israel as a … [Read more...]

Download Weekly Study Materials There is nothing new coming from many political and 'religious' quarters of the world, all claiming Israel as racist and further pushing forward the claim of Israel as an apartheid state. I think our ancestor Ruth would find that to be simply incredulous. We have … [Read more...]

Download Weekly Study Materials Not 80 years have gone by since an attempt at an almost full destruction of the Jewish people -- and yet both in Israel and abroad, there have arisen an outpouring of new expressions of Jewish culture, all of which are emerging from what one might describe as from … [Read more...]