Next Tuesday evening we will be celebrating the festival of the Jewish calendar known as Shavuot or the Feast of Weeks. The Torah asks us to count 49 days from Pesach to Shavuot, known as the period of the Omer. During this time we have the practice to refrain from...
Parshat Noach – Tzelem Elokim – How can I be like God?
The book of Genesis is a book that itself could be studied over an entire year and the reader would still be left with many questions. When we study the books of the Torah and perhaps the book of Genesis in particular, we need to look at the stories and ideas on both...
Parshat Noach – Healthy Rainbow Kebabs!
To remember the rainbow that God sent as a reminder that he would never again bring a flood to the world, why not try this beautiful and healthy rainbow of fruit kebabs!
Please enjoy this thoughtful introduction to the book of Genesis by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks…
Some holiday reading for Simchat Torah… Bereishit-The-Genesis-of-Justice – Rabbi Sacks
Akiva School in the Suburban Digital Magazine
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Rabbi Grossman’s Corner
The Holiday of Shavuot! – For the Love of Cheese and All Other Things Dairy….
Parshat Bamidbar – Everyone Counts
Next week we will be commemorating the holiday known as Yom Yerushalayim, celebrating the reunification of Jerusalem after the 1967 war. After the UN partition plan and resulting Arab-Israeli war, the old city of Jerusalem remained under Jordanian rule. Many...
Recipe for Parshat Bamidbar
Wandering through the “dessert” (from challahcrumbs.com) This week’s parsha, Parshat Bamidbar, is the opening to a new book of the Torah called Bamidbar or Numbers. This parsha introduces us to the 12 tribes of Israel and their encampment in the desert. Each tribe had...
Parshat Bechukotai – An “A” for Effort!
The end of the year comes with many types of evaluations. We have tests, exams, essays, and papers, all of which we use to look at how much our students have learned during the present school year. The school at which I have worked for the past 11 years has three...