Galilee Diary: Sukkah season
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...
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
Galilee Diary: Gedaliah
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, who was of royal descent and one of the king's commanders, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah;
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Yom Kippur Minhag
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
Galilee Diary: Uncertainty
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah)
These are the festivals of the Lord, holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at their proper time. -Leviticus 23:4
One of the things that many immigrants from
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
JanetheWriter Goes to Washington: A One-Day Sabbatical Adventure
Galilee Diary: On the Waterfront
The Need for Connection
Modern Art is often hard to connect to inspiration. From the multimillion dollar canvases of a single color to more infamous works that cause somewhat regressive public figures to over-react, art can often be lost upon the consumer of the work.
Galilee Diary: Cats
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah)
Therefore the lion will strike them from the forest, the wolf will attack them from the plains, the leopard watches over their cities - and will devour anyone who comes out, on