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‘Feel the rhythm’ of Jamaica’s Judaism [PHOTOS]
Roberto Loiederman
October 10, 2012
The first thing you notice at Shaare Shalom Congregation in Kingston, Jamaica is the sand on the floor, softening the sound of your footsteps as you take your seat. You bend down and let the grains, smooth-gritty, run through your fingers. Is there some meaning in it, a reference to the 40 years the ancient Israelites wandered in the desert?
Shavuot 5768: Praise for the scroll
Jewish Journal
June 9, 2008
In a knowledge world ruled by books and pages and digitized memory, why do Jews hold onto the scroll? Could it be that rolled along together somewhere in our minds with the love of Torah is the love of scroll?\n
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