by Rabbi Sam Yolen, Congregation Beth Israel, Lebanon
“I’m sorry.” I hear the words drop out of me like rain from the sky. I don’t want to say them. Words of apology don’t come easy to me. Sometimes, when I say them, I don’t feel their weight when they roll off my lips. I just s…
My earliest memory of anti-Semitism as a young child was the defacement of my family home’s sidewalk in Yonkers, NY by a neighbor. Fortunately, apart from that experience, I have generally felt sheltered from this hatred, because we moved shortly thereafter to a community in Long Island …
Kudos, congratulations, and heartfelt thanks, to Julie Sherman and her Jewish Film Festival Committee for making our July Sunday and Wednesday evenings so thought provoking, entertaining, and stimulating. Our twice a week movie nights were wonderful and I looked forward to receiving the mi…
By Jenn Ross
As I was seeking the right words to begin my column, my hero Dr. Rachel Levine spoke them in her opening remarks in the July 28 Department of Health press conference in response to the ongoing transphobic attacks she has been experiencing: “I have no room in my heart for hatr…
By Rabbi Carl Choper, Temple Beth Shalom
Hezkiya taught (in Jeremiah 50:17): "Israel are scattered sheep" - why are Israel likened to a sheep? Just as a sheep, when hurt on its head or some other body part, all of its body parts feel it. So it is with Israel when one of them sins and ev…
