The spring season brings to the Jewish and Israeli calendar several important holidays and dates. While Passover represents the unique Jewish redemption and exodus story, it is the universal messaging of the holiday that made it so well known and popular among non-Jewish audiences. ...
What I love about the Jewish holiday cycle, and the period of the Omer, in particular, is the way in which it invites us to live with an elevated consciousness. If we were to consider each holiday as a response to a human yearning, ...
Limmud is rooted in a set of 10 shared values, each based in Jewish tradition. These values animate our work and enable Limmud to be a platform where Jews from all backgrounds come together to connect with transformative learning and with one another. For ...
Lior Caspi is Limmud Seattle president-elect and a board member at Seattle Jewish Chorale. He serves as a Federation committee member, startup coach and leader in technology and healthcare.
Shavuot is a pilgrimage festival, like Pesach and Sukkot. But it differs from those in an interesting way. Leviticus 23, after describing Shavuot's Temple rituals, repeats the commandments of peah and leket, to leave the corners of the fields and the unharvested gleanings of ...
Rabba Shani Gross is the Director of North American Programs at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. Shani earned rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Maharat, is a Wexner Graduate Fellow/Davidson Scholar (Class 29), and a former Hillel Fellow for Rabbinic Entrepreneurship ...
Gathered around the Seder table most of us once again lacked the physical connection of family and friends that we enjoyed prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. We have experienced a fairly real mitzrayim, a straitening, a limitation. During Passover the holiday which brought the ...
Joel is an American who made aliyah to Jerusalem in 2009. He works as a licensed tour guide in Israel, and also researches, writes and presents about Jewish Food. He can be found at www.tasteofjew.com and www.fjisrael.com ...
Years ago, I learned the importance of establishing connections with the milestones our ancestors reached. I learned that listening to the stories and telling them was not the same as telling them as if we were there, as we are enjoined to do during ...
This week’s Torah portion includes the command to "Love your fellow as yourself," (Leviticus 19:18). I have always loved this quote, and also assumed it was pretty straight-forward. Try to be nice to others, and find the same compassion for other people that you might ...
