There is a line in a meditation found in a prayer book which reads “It is hard to sing one oneness when our world is not complete”. I kept hearing this line in my [Read more…]
How strange, in many ways, to begin the Torah cycle this week as Israel faces its most challenging moment in decades. What can one say about the idea of creation when so much is [Read more…]
Reb Carl Viniar, a Jewish Sacred Aging contributing writer and rabbinic pastor from Voorhees, NJ, is currently traveling in the Middle East. He filed this story from his hotel room in Jordan. [Read more…]
Alden Solovy offers new prayers for Israel in the wake of the Hamas attack. [Read more…]
There is a well-known interpretation that notes that the last letter of Torah is a lamed while the first letter of Torah is the bet and those two letters for the Hebrew word lev, [Read more…]
On this week’s episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell discusses the newly released book, The First Fifty Years: A Jubilee in Prose and Poetry Honoring Women Rabbis, which she co-edited. [Read more…]
Chaplain David Balto writes about Yom Kippur in a maximum security prison. [Read more…]
Rabbi Edmund Weiss, Ph.D., writes about the connection between the festival of Sukkot and the book of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet). [Read more…]
New JSA contributor Jane Seskin offers a poetic reflection on the year for the conclusion of Rosh Hashana and the high holy days,. [Read more…]
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