This past summer, my family and I took a leap of faith — we bought […]
Category: Judaism
If you must fight, fight like lions
On a quiet Wednesday morning, I got a call that shook me. A friend had […]
Celebrating Tu B’Shvat around Cincinnati
Photo credit: James St. John, Flickr, C.C. 2.0Maple tree in fall colors in Ohio, USA […]
Planting trees for Tu B’Shvat
Courtesy of MyJewishLearning. Photo credit: Zoltan Kluger/Israel GPOKibbutz members planting fruit trees in 1946 (MyJewishLearning) […]
9 things you didn’t know about Tu B’Shvat
Courtesy of MyJewishLearning. (MyJewishLearning) — Tu B’Shvat is the Jewish new year for trees. Some […]
Parshat Ki Tetze – Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19
Efrat, Israel – “An illegitimate person [mamzer] shall not enter into the congregation of the […]
Parshat Shoftim — Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9
Efrat, Israel – “When a matter shall arise for you too wondrous for judgment, whether […]
Parshat Ekev – Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25
Efrat, Israel – Not by bread alone does a human being live, but rather by […]
The Temple and its destruction
Courtesy of MyJewishLearning.A painting of the Second Temple in the Dura-Europos Synagogue in Syria By […]
The prohibition against studying Torah on Tisha B’Av
Photo courtesy of MyJewishLearning (MyJewishLearning) — Tisha B’Av, observed during the intense, blazing heat of […]