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by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)

Joshua ben Perachiah says: Make yourself a teacher (rabbi) and get yourself a colleague (friend) and judge every person leniently.
-Mishnah, Avot 1:6

Last week was the ordination

As Jews, we have always cared about the food that we eat. Some of us choose to embrace traditional notions of kashrut - and many of us do not - but we can all agree that our food, and how we get it, plays an important part in our lives.

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)

Judges and officers [shotrim, the word used in modern Hebrew for police] shall you set up in the gates that the Lord your God shall give you for your tribes, and they shall judge

Take your son," - "Which son?"
"Your only son," - "Each is the only son of his mother."
"The one you love," - "I love them both."
"Isaac."
-Midrash Genesis Rabbah 39, on Genesis 22:2

The other day I observed a Bible class in the regional high school at Kibbutz

When JanetheWriter reminded her friends on Facebook, 'tis the season to be satiated with the songs of the season, I promised her I would tell my favorite White Christmas story.

When this happened, the United Nations had already voted for the establishment of a

CNN has done an interesting bit on Arab Israelis serving in the IDF. It's particularly notable since the Reform Movement just adopted a resolution on Arab Israelis at the Union for Reform Judaism's 70th Biennial convention in Toronto ten days ago.

Isaac Nuell is the RAC's Conference Planner. This post was written with the help of Rachel Cohen, the RAC's Senior Legislative Assistanty on Environmental Issues.

Wow - it's hard to believe Biennial is already over!

Last week, a truly incredible and significant segment of the American Reform Jewish people - more than 3,500 rabbis, lay leaders, administrators, staff, and volunteers - converged on Toronto for the 2009 Union for Reform Judaism Biennial.

Barbara Lerman-Golomb is the Director of Education and Outreach for Hazon and an author, environmental activist and experiential educator. This post originally appeared at The Jew and the Carrot. 

In his Shabbat morning sermon to 3,500+ members of Reform