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As we prepare to celebrate the defeat of Pharaoh and the liberation of our ancestors, my heart is extremely heavy.  Over the past two weeks, I have become increasingly alarmed by what appears to be a blatant attempt by Washington to strong arm Israel into conceding land, security, and prisoners to the Palestinians. Washington began [...]

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Sorry I haven’t posted in a bit. This link will lead you to the video of last Friday night’s D’var Torah which focused upon the way certain letters in the Torah are written. Last Shabbat, we started reading Vayikra (Leviticus). The last letter of “vayikra” is much smaller than the other letters. What does this [...]

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Continuing the discussion I began in my last post, on Friday night I discussed some more of the lessons the Hamantaschen have taught me this Purim.  Hope you enjoy the two clips below. What I Learned From the Hamantaschen, Pt. 1 What I Learned From the Hamantaschen, Pt. 2

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As you know, my kids and I have spent lots of time this week baking hamantaschen for our Ramat Shalom family. From scratch, we made over 2,000 hamantaschen! It took us about 20 hours to make the dough, fold the individual hamantaschen, and fill them with chocolate, raspberry, or strawberry filling. It was hard work [...]

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Jews need each other.  We need a minyan (10 people) in order to pray.  Traditionally, in order to study Torah, we need a partner.  We can’t chant Torah alone.  We can’t say Kaddish alone.  And we really can’t appreciate the Jewish holidays alone.  Imagine a seder without anyone attending! Last Shabbat was known as Shabbat [...]

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My D’var Torah (words of Torah) from Friday night, January 22nd So many of us have gone through or are currently going through extremely dark and trying times.  Whether it be an illness, a death, a crumbling relationship, a financial crisis, whether it be overwhelming depression or anxiety, a powerful addiction, feeling lost, alone or [...]

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An great article about the Jewish community in Haiti can be found here.

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