Five Steps to an Ethical-Action Child
Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
February 26, 2004
Everything teaches something. Here are five ways to help your children develop an ethical-action consciousness in their everyday lives.
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The Blow by Blow on Shofarim
Gaby Wenig
September 25, 2003
Yossi Mizrachi stood in front of a class of second-graders at Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy with a dark, ridged, 4-foot-long buffalo horn in his hand.
Where You Stand
Rabbi Allen I. Freehling
August 28, 2003
We are standing before God and God is standing before us — especially during this particular time, when certain fundamental liberties are being denied individuals and when justice is being withheld from specific groups — all in the name of "homeland security."
Kids Page
Abby Gilad
May 15, 2003
Lag B\’Omer, the 33rd day of the counting of the days between Pesach and Shavuot, will be celebrated on May 20.
Cherishing Passover
Marisa N. Pickar
April 3, 2003
One of the purposes of the Passover seder is to teach our children the story of how the Jewish people came to be. Passover is a history lesson taught not by impersonal teachers in a sterile classroom, but by our families seated around the dining room table. When done correctly, the Passover seder should instill a sense of pride. Because with knowing who we are, we should feel proud to be Jews.
Passover commemorates the departure of the Jewish people from Egypt some 3,000 years ago and marks the birth of a nation. This is as much a celebration of our spiritual freedom as it is a jubilation of our physical liberation from slavery.
A Solid Gold Artist
Michael Aushenker
October 17, 2002
Not long ago, Jeffrey Gold disappeared from Los Angeles\’ art scene.\”I just buried myself in my work,\” said the 45-year-old artist. \”I didn\’t let people see the work. I was kind of struggling.\”
Tangier’s Casualty
Mike Seid
May 16, 2002
Most of my background — childhood in Santa Monica, high school at Harvard-Westlake, classics degree from Harvard University — reinforced certain principles: tolerance, the equal value of all cultures, the idea that sympathy, discussion and negotiation can solve most grievances and that force should rarely be used.
Charting a New Course
Rochelle Furstenberg
April 11, 2002
About 60 people, mainly women, listen intently to Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg as she teaches her class on the weekly Torah portion at the Jerusalem College for Adult Education.
University students sit next to retirees, young mothers and professionals as Zornberg discusses Exodus and what is meant by the Jews having left Egypt b\’hipazon (hastily).
She calls upon the traditional commentaries — midrash and Rashi. But her signature is also mixing in heavy doses of original interpretations, pulled from the secular disciplines of psychology, philosophy and English literature. Zornberg contrasts the closed, self-contained Egyptian pharaoh, who could not admit to human needs, to the human trait that allows for doubts, passions and limitations.
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