Challenge Your Child
Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff
June 8, 2007
So even if my rabbi\’s bar mitzvah talk engendered embarrassment and guilt in me, I now want to thank him for challenging me in the way he did that day.
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Please God, heal her now
Rabbi Judith HaLevy
June 1, 2007
In shuls across the world this Shabbat we will hear five short, simple Hebrew words: El na, refah na lah (Please God, heal her now).
My Blessing, Your Blessing
Rabbi Mark Hyman
May 25, 2007
For all those sacred moments, memories and hopes, may we continue to remember God\’s precious blessings, first conveyed by the priests, then by rabbis, loving parents and many others who all feel privileged to bestow these hopes and promises upon a world that needs them now more than ever.
Size Matters
Rob Eshman
November 9, 2006
Three thousand Jews from around the world will gather in Los Angeles this week for the 75th General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities.
Yeladim
Abby Gilad
May 19, 2005
Passover eez my favorite time of zee year, because I get to start counting. Do you know vat it eez that I vant to count? Here is a teeny veeny hint: 5, 12, 30, 51 – These numbers correspond to letters in this paragraph. Start counting!
A Numbers Game
Dan Jacobs
December 30, 2004
A few months ago, I scribbled out a Web site, bought a camera, hired a director, raised $42,000 and embarked on a journey across
the United States.
\”I\’m looking for true love,\” I told my father, \”even if she\’s husking corn in Iowa.\”
Math Problem
Jill Stewart
March 18, 2004
It\’s spring in Sacramento, and that means the Capitol steps are jammed again with protesters against government cuts — the first protesters to show up in mid-March were thousands of community college students demanding that California taxpayers continue paying the nation\’s steepest college subsidies per student.
Style and Substance
Rob Eshman
September 18, 2003
The National Jewish Population Survey, funded for $6 million by the federation umbrella group United Jewish Communities, reported that the nation\’s population of 5.2 million Jews represented a decline of 2 percent from the 1990 survey, which reported 5.5 million Jews.
Age-Old Dilemma
Carin Davis
May 8, 2003
My friend Lindsay\’s friend, Michelle, hosted a 30th birthday bash for her friend, Beth, last Saturday night. So of course I was there.
Follow the Leader
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
July 3, 1997
A yeshiva outgrew its downtown quarters and moved to the former site of an upstate boys\’ academy. Finding a boathouse on the property, the Rosh Yeshiva called in one of the rabbis and ordered him to organize a rowing team.
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