Firstly, I just need to mention that just in time for Parshat Ki Tisa, when the Israelites take a census, my mailbox contained a questionnaire from the US CENSUS Secondly, I hope you are already...
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Yom Kippur: Some Fave Online Live Webcasts 5780
For those not able to get to a synagogue physically, or for those who fear a scene like that in the 1939 Yiddish film “Overture to Glory,” below are some live webcasts of services that...
Will Zucktown Need a Rabbi and Shul? B’nai Ner Arava?
MENLO PARK, CA — Facebook, Inc. announced plans to build Willow Village, a 59-acre urban district located at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area of California...
JewliciousBiz: Synagogues Try The Pay-What-You-Want Model
Guess what? The Stephen Wise Free Synagogue is not free. Free referred to the idea of free will and one’s free-will-based affiliation with a temple. Most American temples – even free ones...
Is There Too Much Chai in L’Chaims?
Have you noticed how many Orthodox Jewish groups that are catering to Jewish youth are plying them with alcohol? Truth be told, I drink less than a litre of spirits per decade, but I am not a prude...
on having the last word
It happened at a congregational meeting of a conservative shul in Northeast Philly. I had recently become a Bat Mitzvah and my parents felt I was ready for the drama that can ensue at meetings like...