The guests today, Edmond Weiss, a retired communications professor, and Carl Viniar, a mediator and former attorney, are both undertaking alternative studies that lead to rabbinic ordination. Viniar is studying to become a rabbinic pastor, [Read more…]
As we light the lights of the Channukah menorah these days, no doubt we will be filled with smiles and thoughts of family and friends and, maybe food! These eight lights have received numerous interpretations [Read more…]
Vayeshev is one of the most sweeping and dramatic of all our portions. It is the beginning of the Joseph cycle, We are introduced immediately in Genesis 37 to the sibling issues of Joseph and [Read more…]
Rabbi Dayle Friedman of GrowingOlder.com on her role as spiritual advisor to families dealing with Alzheimer’s Disease. Guest commentary from Nancy Hays, who was a caregiver to her husband while he was afflicted with Alzheimer’s, and from [Read more…]
Editor’s Note: This guest post from Rabbi Michael Latz of Shir Tikvah Synagogue in Minneapolis is adapted from a post on his Facebook page, and is reposted here with permission. After almost 18 years in [Read more…]
With this portion (Genesis 32ff) we reach several key moments in the Genesis narrative. Indeed, this portion, one of my favorites, seems even more relevant today. The concluding chapters detail genealogies. Genesis 34 contains a [Read more…]
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