The midrash in the Yalkut Shimoni uses this insight to provide a beautiful homily. The midrash points out that the one who flees from positions of honor and authority, achieves honor and authority.
Evan Marc Katz has never had a bad Internet date.
\”I don\’t want a bat mitzvah,\” she told her parents. \”It\’s just for you and your relatives. You don\’t even need me there. So why don\’t you just throw your own party?\”
Bike the Sites, a smart solution to the challenges of sightseeing in heavily trafficked D.C., allows visitors to enjoy Washington\’s history and architecture in an environmentally friendly way.
What brought the first, mainly Sephardic, Jews to Charleston was its remarkable religious tolerance, not to mention the economic prospects elevating them to a new aristocracy to which their Ashkenazi kinsmen who followed greedily aspired.
In introducing us to the patriarchal family of Isaac, son of Abraham, this week\’s Torah portion of Toldot begins: "And these are the offspring of Isaac son of Abraham — Abraham begot Isaac." Since Torah is not given to redundancy, this opening passage raises the question:
On the first Saturday of each month, while weekly, traditional Shabbat morning services are taking place at Adat Shalom synagogue, another service transpires behind the main sanctuary that is anything but traditional.
As she enters her 23rd year in prison, Doris Roldan realizes that she has two choices: she can wallow in self-pity or she can continue to have hope.
On Tuesday evening, Sept. 30, while standing in front of her fellow inmates at the California Institution for Women (CIW), Roldan made her choice: \”My body is incarcerated but I will not allow my mind, heart or soul to be in prison,\” Roldan said.
Roldan is one of 26 members of the Shalom Sisterhood, a group of inmates that meets twice a month for Jewish study at the Chino maximum-security prison, who participated in a joint Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur service.
\”I gotta tell you,\” said Lenny Silberman, North American continental director of the JCC Maccabi Games, \”doing this for the games for 20 years and working with those communities, the potential for a big balagan [brouhaha] was definitely there.\”
Daniel Lembark died at his home in Los Angeles on Feb. 3, 2003 at the age of 78.
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