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Galilee Diary: Sukkah season

Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein

You shall live in booths seven days; all citizens in Israel shall live in booths, in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I the Lord your God. -Leviticus 23:42-43

In the Beginning...

Larry Kaufman, z"l

As an inveterate - my wife would say obsessive - participant in on-line discussions, list-servs, Facebook, and blogs, I was interested to learn in a recent thread on iWorship that not all Reform congregations follow the Torah reading protocol for Rosh Hashanah

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Yom Kippur Minhag

Jane E. Herman

It's not as though I don't have any unread books on my bookshelf.  In fact, sometimes it feels as though most of them are unread and there's just no time to pluck one from the shelf, curl up and get lost in its pages.  Among my recent acquisitions still

RAC Contest: Images of Justice!

As a Reform Jew, you pursue social justice in your everyday life and participate in tikkun olam, the repair of our broken world, whenever possible. To recognize and celebrate these good deeds, we're launching Images of Justice, a Facebook-based contest that

Galilee Diary: On the Waterfront

Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein
He will take us back in love; He will cover up our iniquities, You will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea. -Micah 7:19