Dozens of grassroots volunteer leaders from cities across North America gathered together on October 17 to connect, share best-practices, develop new skills and celebrate Limmud’s accomplishments animating Jewish community. The Leadership Summit was an opportunity for learning and networking focussed on nurturing Limmud’s lay ...
American Jews need opportunities – lots of them – to celebrate with, speak with and learn from each other, not within the silos of their own proclivities, but with the ‘others’ within our midst. We need to find increasing ways to bring together religious ...
Boaz hands “her parched corn, and she ate and was satisfied” – seems lovely and generous. The Midrash is critical. Rabbi Yitzchak the son of Maryon says: "the scripture comes to teach us that if a person is going to do a mitzvah, let it ...
Rabbi Leon Morris is the President of Pardes and is the first alumnus to head the institution. Leon made aliyah in June 2014, after serving as the rabbi of Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor, NY. Before coming to Pardes, ...
It was during the Counting of the Omer in 2012 that I lost my grandfather. He had been admitted to the hospital one week earlier. The day before he was admitted, I had started a new job – my first job at a synagogue. ...
Rabbi Gordon Tucker is Vice Chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of scores of articles on Jewish theology and law, and published Heavenly Torah, a translation of and commentary on Abraham ...
In a few more days, on Shavuot, we will have an encounter with the One Above, the King of Kings. And on this last week of our counting of the Omer, of working on ourselves to become better people, we are focusing on malchut: ...
Devin Shmueli has a deep passion, based on his own lived experience, for mental health education, suicide prevention, and stigma reduction around mental illness. He graduated from Andover Newton Theological School with a Master of Divinity in 2017 where he ...
I never connected to teshuva as a commonly associated notion of repentance. I know that sometimes one needs to ask G-d for forgiveness or understanding. Yet, the deepening of my Jewish knowledge led me to realize that teshuva is not about shame or begging G-d ...
Who is Joseph? The eternal dreamer; the wearer of the technicolor coat; the interpreter of dreams; or the all-powerful viceroy of Egypt? He was, in fact, all of these, but his impact on the Jewish People is defined by the later. For we see ...
