admin | August 13, 2021
My father is still alive I can hear his voice in his books and videos. Thats precisely how he wanted to be remembered not by eulogies or speeches, but by regular people learning from his works, says his eldest son and CEO of the Steinsaltz Center in Jerusalem, Rabbi Menachem Meni Even-Israel
admin | August 13, 2021
As we approach the end of 5781, I find myself both hopeful and concerned about the challenges that lay ahead for We The People of the United States, for People Israel and all of us who inhabit Planet Earth.
admin | August 13, 2021
In a time of selfies and self-esteem, humility is a forgotten virtue. The Jewish traditions emphasis on humility runs counter to our zeitgeist, which places each individual at the very center of the universe. It is challenging for us today to make sense of Maimonides suggestion that the proper way is not merely that man be humble, but that one should be of a very diminutive spirit, and their spirit extremely lowly.
admin | August 5, 2021
Education through Action By: Rabbi Chaim Tureff, Rav Beit Sefer Originally appeared in the Pressman Academy Shmoozer, November Edition. In school there are many concepts and ideas that are taught. Not all of them are taught in a book, on an I-Pad or through a lecture.
admin | August 5, 2021
I have known Rabbi Meni Even Israel for a long time, even before he got married. When I came to Israel at 19 for a year at seminary, I was once invited with some girls to the home of his father, the great Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
admin | August 5, 2021
about her latest trip to Congo featured in the Jewish Journal. Here is an excerpt: The problems are extreme in Congo, and the solutions are complex and will take years to achieve
admin | August 5, 2021
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) Writer Luc Sante calls them the ghosts of Manhattan.
admin | August 5, 2021
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Rabbi Minna Brombergs work addressing weight stigma in Jewish communal spaces took her to a lot of synagogues. She was often bewildered when organizers provided her a chair that was too small. Getting people to acknowledge her body and their discomfort with it is one reason she founded Fat Torah a year ago.
admin | August 5, 2021
Ronald C. Wornick got a lot done. He turned an MIT degree in food science into a sterling career as a corporate executive and business owner, creating thousands of jobs.
admin | August 5, 2021
It took 48 hours to get here, but we have finally arrived in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu. JWW partners with various Congolese non-profit organizations here, all of whom we will be visiting over the next 4 days. We partner with Panzi Hospital in helping rape survivors who have been isolated from their families re-start their lives; we partner with organizations helping build new leaders for a healthier Congo in the future; and we partner to bring rape recovery care to thousands of rural women who have never before had access to medical care at all
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