Glass Half Full: Jewish Responses to Life’s Challenges with Rabbi Zoe Klein, Rob Eshman, Rabbi David Woznica, Rabbi Amy Bernstein and Rabbi Elazar Muskin
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2015
Time: 4:00 pm — 6:00 pm
Place: Harvey Morse Auditorium Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
8700 Beverly Blvd. – South Tower, Los Angeles, CA, 90048
Can Judaism bring new insight and hope to life’s challenges? Join four distinguished rabbis as they explore the impact of Jewish wisdom on modern life.
Ambition over principle. Political gain over integrity. That is his legacy — a legacy stained in shame.
Success in the war against Iran – which every American and Israeli should hope for – will only strengthen the tendency of both leaders to highlight their dominant personalities as the state axis, at the expense of the boring institutions that serve them.
Tangy, bright and filled with irresistible umami flavor, turshi is the perfect complement to burgers, kebabs and chicken, as well as the perfect foil for eggs and salads.
Nothing says Jewish comfort food like sweet noodle kugel.
On Purim, re-reading Persia, we stand at the intersection of the past and this very moment. May we merit not merely a temporary cessation of war, but true peace — the ultimate end of all conflict.
As Israel is learning in Gaza, achieving regime change from the outside, without a commitment to deep and continuous involvement, is a difficult task.
When future generations tell your story and mine, which parts will look obvious in hindsight? What opportunities will we have leveraged — and decisions made — that define our legacy?
The nostalgia attached to the ’80s and ’90s often comes from a world where public hanging-out was built into daily life.
For over half a decade, I had seen how the slow drip of antisemitism, carefully enveloped in the language of social justice and human rights, had steadily poisoned people whom I had previously considered perfectly reasonable.
Today, amid rising global antisemitism and uncertainty in the Diaspora, many Anglos considering aliyah are searching not only for housing but for belonging.
Their assumptions about the attack on Iran are based on a belief in the resilience of an evil terrorist regime, coupled with a conviction that Trump’s belief in the importance of the U.S.-Israel alliance is inherently wrong.
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.
We may never know each other’s names. We may never meet. Yet for those minutes, across oceans, time zones, and screens, we share something deeply human.
With Purim having just passed, I’ve been thinking about how Jews have been disguising ourselves over the years.
This moment calls for moral imagination. For solidarity with the Iranian people demanding dignity. For sustained support of those who seek a freer future.
We are struggling on two fronts: we worry about friends and family, and we are preoccupied with our own “survival” on a trip extended beyond our control.
In the film, Leo Woodall plays Niki White, a gifted young piano tuner in New York whose heightened auditory abilities allow him to detect even the faintest mechanical sounds.
Looking around at the tears, laughter, and joy after two years of hell, the show was able to not just touch but nourish our souls.
