OK. Now what’s an omer?
It is a unit of
measure — like a pound or a kilo. That is how sheaves of barley were measured. The Israelites were commanded to bring an omer of barley to the Temple on the second day of Passover. If you don’t believe me, read this week’s Torah portion, Emor. It says it right there. Then they were supposed to count 49 days from that day, until Shavuot. Lag B’Omer falls on the 33rd day of the counting of the omer. Get it?
Selznick saw his idol David Bowie perform live when he was 15 and made up his mind that he wanted to create a show of his own and work with Bowie.
“The Social Reckoning” isn’t about a power struggle, but shows that powerful companies are reluctant to change unless there is pain.
In his article about his proposals for the Democratic Socialists of America, he jokes that “The DSA has great respect for religious traditions.”
Memory is the mother of gratitude. If we do not remember our past, it is difficult to improve our present or build a better future.
What began as a personal exploration of Judaism eventually became intertwined with Broukhim’s professional life.
It’s worth paying attention to what is – or isn’t – happening to our “large” parties. They are quite small, or at least that’s how they appear in the polls even as Election Day draws near.
We need not know where every decision will lead before taking the first step. Sometimes acting upon our deepest convictions is itself the beginning of wisdom.
New opportunities and challenges have always come and gone. But pulpit clergy with their years of training, education and perspective on life, generated from atop the pulpit, are especially well suited for whatever lies ahead.
Anyone who votes, or leads, would be wise to study the story of Abraham and David.
The Tower of Babel reminds us how easily language can divide us. Our shared history reminds us of what becomes possible when we find ways to understand one another.
What is especially troubling to me is that at many of these protests in France you will find signs reading “Intifada Revolution” and “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Arab,” along with ubiquitous Palestinian flags, and Hamas flags too.
In this parsha, we meet the first hire — employee #1 — of Jew, Inc. a new God-created enterprise that will change everything.
Determine how much a man’s life – and death – are WORTH? The man who did this for the 9/11 families!
It is the first time two women are running against each other in the general election for Los Angeles Mayor.
As an Iranian-born Jewish American, I cherish the right to participate in choosing our leaders. That means researching candidates, understanding the powers of each office and expecting promises to be matched by follow-through.
The question is not only which campus will be safe for our children. It is who our children will be when they arrive.
Facing potential mob violence, silence can become a kind of rational, albeit disappointing, response.
Zionism, to me, begins with a decision: to stay and refuse to give up – even when election results disappoint us, even when the government pursues a course we fiercely oppose.
There is a special need for the critics of Israel to repent for their false charges against Israel of starving Gazans.
