Tech's Best Feature: The Off Switch
It's Friday evening. The smells of rosemary chicken and freshly-baked challah fill the house. My daughters, 3 and 9, sigh as I gently detach the iPads from their laps. One by one, our screens are powered down.
Chametz (#BlogExodus, Day 4)
One of my dear friends and colleagues, Rabbi Phyllis Sommer, has for several years now challenged us to blog Exodus. She has come up with daily themes.
Reform Wedding at the Knesset Pt. 2
Today there was a Reform wedding outside the Knesset. Lin and her new husband exchanged vows in a ceremony officiated by Rabbi Gilad Kariv and Rabbi Kinneret Shiryon. Friends, family, members of the Israeli Reform Movement and its youth group, rabbinical students, and five members of the Knesset (known as MKs) attended the wedding.
Cleaning (#BlogExodus, Day 6)
In my earliest seder memories, we went each year to Dallas to celebrate Pesach at my Aunt Sylvia and Uncle Bill's house. Usually we flew on Southwest; it took about an hour to get from San Antonio to Love Field.
Four Questions about the Final Four
In a process shrouded in secrecy, a powerful group convened behind closed doors to debate, discuss, and ultimately make a decision impacting millions of people. I’m not talking about last week’s Papal Conclave, but rather the NCAA College Basketball Selection Committee.
Netanyahu Forms Coalition in Nick of Time
More than 50 days after Israelis went to the polls, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
The Modern Relevance of Passover
Galilee Diary: Starting Over
The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain. The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.
A Maundy Thursday Seder
Galilee Diary: Birds Without Borders
Is it by your wisdom that the hawk grows pinions, spreads his wings to the south? Does the eagle soar at your command, building his nest high, dwelling in the rock, lodging upon the fastness of a jutting rock? (Job 39:26-28)