3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (728+ words) By Chloe Levian in Los Angeles Every year, my extended Persian-Jewish family gathers around beautiful, intricate Passover seder tables. Let's be real: we can't all fit at one table. Piles of Saran-wrapped scallions sit in the center, waiting to be…...

3+ hour, 2+ min ago  (482+ words) EL CAJON, California (Press Release) " The Grossmont College Library is one of 50 U. S. libraries newly selected to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association (ALA) that examines the motives, pressures…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (476+ words) By Betzy Lynch in La Jolla, California As we continue our journey from Passover to Shavuot through the counting of the Omer, Saturday night we arrive at Day 10, which invites us to explore Gevurah within Tiferet (balanced judgment). Gevurah represents…...

2+ day, 58+ min ago  (528+ words) By Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg in Edison, New Jersey I cannot sleep. One thought passes throughout the night. I, a second generation survivor, am only a few years younger than the youngest Holocaust survivors. Who will be the voices of…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (786+ words) By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel in Chula Vista, California "This is what the Lord meant when He said: "Through those near to me I will be sanctified; in the sight of all the people I will obtain glory." And…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (465+ words) By Barrett Holman Leak in San Diego But in the very next breath, the fire of favor became a fire of consumption. Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, step forward with their own fire pans, offering "strange fire" (esh…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (886+ words) By Michael R. Mantell, Ph. D. , in El Cajon, California Some moments arrive so full they almost crack you open. That's where Parsha Shemini begins. After seven days of milu'im, the inauguration of the Mishkan, the eighth day finally comes. "Ki hayom…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (894+ words) By Jerry Klinger in Boynton Beach, Florida Approximately 2, 800 years ago, a raiding party burst from Gaza." They surged across the adjacent fields deep into Judaea, into Israel, searching for plunder and human victims to kidnap. Plunder was fine, but captured…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (244+ words) By Yossef Ben-Meir in Marrakech, Morocco Liberating the groaning is to make the caging groan again and once more and with added horrid measure." But the newly freed in their embarking," heading out, moving on, turning, arriving, and decamping," shoulder…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (107+ words) By Michael R. Mantell, Ph. D. in El Cajon, California A good, peaceful week, a sweet and healthy week, and a zissen'Pesach'to all! As the first stars appear and'Shabbat'takes leave, we step together into a week unlike any other, the week that…...