This past Wednesday evening and Thursday we observed Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. Throughout the world Jews take the opportunity to pause, to attend Holocaust memorial programs (including our community’s own) or simply to remember the events which resulted in the murder of six…
Saturday night, I was enjoying seder with 26 people (many I had never met), and while going through the Hagaddah there was a quote that truly spoke to me (another person at the table also had the same “aha” moment). In the Rabbinical Assembly Hagaddah, Feast of Freedom, a side note…
Passover is only one week away. I still have shopping and preparing to do as I look forward to our seders. As the holiday approaches, I thought the following piece written by my colleague, Dr. Steven Nasatir, President of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, provided context as we…
In March, the Pew Research Center conducted a comprehensive study of religion in Israel. I was planning to write about the study then, but other weekly topics came to the fore. The Pew survey portrays a country with great religious diversity and robustness that is highly structured by…
This past Wednesday evening, our community welcomed The Honorable Ron Dermer, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States. Due to security concerns, we were unable to open the event to our entire community. The following are some of his insights...
