Dancing While The War Raged On – A poem for Parsha Vayakhel-Pekudei
Rick Lupert
March 12, 2026
I just returned from B’nei Mitzvah in Chicago … War broke out in the middle of the festivities
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Judaism
Rabbi Jerry Cutler, 91
Ryan Torok
March 12, 2026
In 1973, he founded Synagogue for the Performing Arts, drawing the likes of Walter Matthau, Ed Asner and Joan Rivers.
God: An Invitation
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
March 12, 2026
No single philosophical system can contain God.
The Sweet Song of Survival
Chaim Steinmetz
March 6, 2026
There is a second form of sacred survival: to survive as a nation. And that too takes precedence over everything.
A Bisl Torah — Spiritual Enslavement
Rabbi Nicole Guzik
March 5, 2026
Spiritual enslavement is not confined to the Egypt in the Torah.
On That Day – A poem for Parsha Ki Tisa
Rick Lupert
March 5, 2026
When all of the people are counted – All of them, not just the ones who look like us.
The Snake, the Shepherd’s Crook, and the Eye of the Sun: Uncovering the Haggadah’s Hidden Meaning
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern
March 4, 2026
As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against the belief system and symbols of authority of Pharaoh and his people.
Neil Sedaka, Brooklyn-Born Hit-Maker, Dies at 86
Steven Mirkin
March 4, 2026
Neil Sedaka was born March 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Mac and Eleanor Sedaka. His father was Sephardic and his mother Ashkenazi; Sedaka was a transliteration of the Hebrew “tzedakah.”
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