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Our portion this Shabbat is named after Aaron’s grandson, Pinchas, who defended God’s honor in the previous portion, and was promised that the Priestly Dynasty would remain in this family …
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d'Var Torah
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7/7/23
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In April , I had the pleasure of seeing the Arctic Playhouse’s production of “The 39 Steps” (my spouse, Annie, was in the cast), a comedy based on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 …
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6/1/23
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Monday and Tuesday, May 8-9, brings one of the oddest holidays of the Jewish year.
Lots of people can tell you that Lag B’Omer is the 33rd day of the counting of the omer (didn’t you …
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5/4/23
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The festival of Passover is known by two names. Our sages called it “the time of our freedom,” because it is our celebration for God gifting us our exodus from Mizraim (Egypt). Of course, …
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4/2/23
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It was either a brilliant editorial decision or just a wonderful coincidence that this issue of Jewish Rhode Island, dedicated to Home and Garden, coincides with the Torah portion of …
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3/3/23
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June 1967
Dear Mom and Dad,
Camp is FABULOUS! Actually, my amazing journey started before I even got here.
The plane from San Antonio made a stop in New Orleans and blew a tire while …
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2/3/23
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Vayekhi is the last parashah of the book of Genesis.
Genesis, as we all know, begins with the creation of the universe and culminates with the creation of human beings.
By the time the book of …
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1/5/23
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The Torah portion Vayetze describes Jacob’s vision of a ladder stretching between heaven and Earth: “He dreamed, and lo – a stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching to …
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12/2/22
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In parashah Lech Lecha, Abraham is invited by God to leave his country, his homeland, the city of his birth, to travel into the unknown and begin a new nation and religion. Not so unusual …
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11/3/22
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All seven days we treat our sukkah as our regular dwelling and our house as our occasional dwelling.
– Mishnah Sukkah 2:9There is an odd sense of peace that comes over me during …
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d'Var Torah
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10/7/22
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