Abraham sits at the entrance of his tent, God appears and then, Abraham is compelled to look up. Three strangers approach, supposedly angels of God. Abraham runs towards them. However, later in the story, when Abraham is about to take…
The parsha begins on a hot, lazy afternoon in Mamre, which if you want to locate it on a map, is roughly the fifth oak tree south of Hebron in Canaan. Abraham looks up and finds three men standing outside…
Jayd Henricks, What We Need Now on Wednesday, October 28, 2026 The question is not whether the Church needs reform but what kind, and toward what end. With all your heart, soul, and mind – Bishop Barron’s Sunday sermon Trappist Monks at St.
Reviewing: “Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe,” by Dr. Erica Brown. Maggid Books and OU Press. 2012. Hardcover: 159 pages. ISBN-10: 1592643639, ISBN-13: 978-1592643639. That’s a harder bar than “sorry,” and it’s also a promise. She reads Rabbeinu Yona in “Shaarei Teshuva…
And how this ritual ‘casting off of sins’ has evolved. By Rabbi Danielle Upbin It is one thing to sit in synagogue and enumerate our sins, privately or through the elaborate liturgy of the Days of Awe. It is another…
By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel in Chula Vista, California Yet history is consistently blind to arithmetic. Israel has never been an empire of vast numbers; it is a story of outsized impact. Greatness isn’t a census headcount; it’s moral…
Some members of the Jewish Residents Council helped decorate the sukkah at Ann’s Choice in Bucks County earlier this month. (Courtesy of Barbara Steiner) The post A Sukkah at Ann’s Choice appeared first on Philadelphia Jewish Exponent. A Sukkah at…
A massive and inspiring gathering was held at the Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim to commemorate the 15th yahrtzeit of its legendary Rosh Yeshiva, Hagaon Harav Nosson Tzvi Finkel zt”l, with dozens of siyumim on Shas Bavli and Talmud Yerushalmi. The…
This week’s Torah portion is Lech-Lecha: Genesis 12:1 — 17:27 The Torah is filled with “going forths” — from Adam and Eve, Cain, Noah and his family, Sarah, Yitzhak, Rivka, Jacob, Rachel, Leah, Moses and the Israelites — everyone. Each of us has had to…
Shalom Alliance of Central Ohio will host its Open Tent Women meet up for Jewish women in Central Ohio from 7 to 8 p.m. Oct. 25. Summer camps never just happen. It is not uncommon for counselors and staff members to be spending an…
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