admin | September 11, 2020
Still Small Voice is a collection of 18 interviews with clergy and scholars tackling 18 questions about God, published during the month of Elul, a time of Jewish reflection and accountability. Click here to read the introduction to the series
admin | September 11, 2020
Its a daunting task.
admin | September 11, 2020
Let the old year and its curses end; let the new year and its blessings begin (Babylonian Talmud). Its been a weird year. Hard to believe that last year, on Rosh Hashanah, we all gathered together by the hundreds and prayed, not socially distanced, no masks, no Purell
admin | September 11, 2020
Growing up in Iraq, Omar Farhadi would heat up dinner for his Jewish neighbors when they rested on the Sabbath. Few are left, and their heritage risks fading away too.
admin | September 11, 2020
Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose and three additional Hadar fellows reflect on the calls of the shofar In this unprecedented year when our High Holiday experiences will surely be modified to address the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, below you will find a Kavanah (contemplative meditation) to be shared in your homes and in our Houses of Worship prior to the sounding of shofar. Penned by four Hadar Jewish Wisdom Fellows (three rabbis, including myself, and a hazzan), we hope these text based inspired ruminations will help in the introspective work that these Days of Awe are intended to catalyse. May the sounds of the Shofar help usher in a Good New Year and may 5781 herald the arrival of new era, one filled to overflowing with health, wholeness, happiness and holiness.
admin | September 11, 2020
This weeks parsha poses a challenging theology and ideology. After nearly 40 years of wandering in the desert, all of the Israelites men, women, young, strangers stand before God and are told that in an effort to create transparency and accessibility, all of the commandments will be recorded for them: Lo bashamayim hi It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who will go up to heaven for us and fetch it for us, to tell [it] to us, so that we can fulfill it? Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who will cross to the other side of the sea for us and fetch it for us, to tell [it] to us, so that we can fulfill it?
admin | September 11, 2020
Schmaltz Brothers food truck sits parked behind Beth Sholom Congregation and Talmud Torah in Potomac.(Photo by Eric Schucht) Its a sunny Friday afternoon when a truck that looks like a UPS delivery vehicle except this one is painted black with colorful swirls parks across the street from the Silver Spring Jewish Center. Music plays over the trucks speakers, while Yehuda Malka and his two sons wait for customers to approach. It doesnt take long.
admin | September 11, 2020
The study halls (batei midrash) of Israeli yeshivas were divided into capsules by plastic sheets for the first two weeks of the Elul term. In each capsule, dozens of teenagers and young men are bent over their volumes of the Talmud
admin | September 11, 2020
A Torah scroll. Photo: RabbiSacks.org. Louis Pasteur reportedly read a French translation of a tractate of Talmud Yoma, saying that a person bitten by a mad dog should be fed a lobe of that dogs liver
admin | August 31, 2020
Adin Steinsaltz was an Israeli rabbi who devoted nearly a half-century to translating the Talmud for modern readers, an epic undertaking that unlocked for millions of people a foundational but often impenetrable Jewish text. He died on 7 August in Jerusalem. He was 83.
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