What blew me away about the synagogue wasn\’t the painting on the wall of the old Moroccan rebbe Meier Baal Ness, which I had never seen anywhere else — not even in Sephardic synagogues — and which brought back memories of going on pilgrimages with my family as a child in Morocco.
About a month after Joi Morris (photo, above) learned she carries the breast cancer gene, she went out to lunch with a group of women. Like Morris, three of the others had recently gotten the news and were weighing their options: mastectomy, ovary removal or extra medical vigilance to catch any cancer early enough to treat.
Parshat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47)
One of the events that undoubtedly shocked and reshaped Judaism was the destruction of the Second Temple almost 2,000 years ago. For nearly 300 years…
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