Rabbinic Pastor Reb Carl Viniar looks at family dysfunction in Genesis, with particular focus on the Joseph Story in Parsha Vayigash. [Read more…]
Reb Carl Viniar writes about the scarcity of civility in our social discourse today. [Read more…]
Reb Carl Viniar writes about the kinds of tests we might face in unexpected places and for unexpected reasons. [Read more…]
Reb Carl writes about his pastoral counseling and mediation practice. [Read more…]
Reb Carl Viniar expands on his recent “Spice Up Your Judaism” class about recent Supreme Court decisions, conducted for Congregation Kol Ami in Cherry Hill, NJ. [Read more…]
Reb Carl Viniar writes about how his college friends’ and Jewish fraternity brothers’ lives unfolded in an era of protest and personal achievement, but ended up with a renewed focus on Judaism. [Read more…]
Reb Carl Viniar writes about the recent rise in antisemitism and suggests some approaches to fighting back against it. [Read more…]
I read an article in which Lisa Kudrow told the story of her son’s bar mitzvah at a mall. Her son was 16 and had gone to the mall to purchase a new game. Some [Read more…]
In the recent Torah portion Tazria, we were given rules regarding mothers isolating from the community immediately after childbirth. I was asked, where did these moms go? What would a place look like where they [Read more…]
M’tzora, (Leviticus 14:1-15:33) Last week we learned of a mother’s isolation after childbirth. This week, God tells Moses how to “purify” a person who was afflicted by tsara’at and who then healed. A priest must [Read more…]
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