Rabbi's Corner: Out of the Wilderness

BY RABBI KEN BRODKIN

Divisions in our country have always run deep. In the wake of recent and concurrent crises, the lines of division have, amazingly, become even more pronounced. What is our calling in a society marked by division and rift?
American society tends to divide along multiple …

Chaplain's Corner: Who is your teacher(s)?

BY RABBI BARRY COHEN

Who has been your teacher? Who has been your kindred spirit? 
One Jewish teacher, Yehoshua ben Perachyah, instructs: “Provide yourself with a teacher; acquire a companion; and judge every person in the scale of merit.” Yehoshua lived in the lower Galilee in the 2nd…

Jobs Board

Tivnu: Building Justice seeks Gap Year Resident Advisor; Havurah Shalom seeks Music Coordinator; Congregation Kesser Israel seeks Operations Manager.

Protests renew African-American/Jewish bonds

The historic connection between the Jewish and African- American communities was slated to be the focus of a series of programs all year; then Stay Home orders in March curtailed the United in Spirit programs. These connections have been reinvigorated during protests against police…

Art: creating and sharing in a pandemic

Artists variously have found their creativity crippled, freed or inspired by the global pandemic, but all of the local artists I interviewed agree that selling or sharing art during the shutdown has been a challenge.