by Cindy Warren | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
Deborah Abecassis Warshawsky The latest accusation of “You’re SO mean!” was whined at me when my new 2015-16 Screen-Time Rules – written in fun colour markers – was pinned to the board in my kitchen. To my surprise, however, even with little or no...
by Cindy Warren | Aug 27, 2015 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
By: Deborah Abecassis Warshawsky I’m sure you’ve been there. Granola bar is unwrapped, Ziploc bag of pretzels is finished, drippy nose is wiped with a tissue, and then, the garbage is handed over to you, the parent: “Here, I’m done.” Uh what? When did mother become...
by sr2018wp | Jun 24, 2015 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
Please enjoy this beautiful dvar Torah from Camp Ramah in New England!! Parshat Hukkat begins with a profoundly strange ritual to moderns. We must sprinkle the ashes of a brown (“red”) cow on a person who has been contaminated by contact with a dead body....
by sr2018wp | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
This week our grade six students are graduating from Akiva School. In the future they will take many different roads and face many different challenges. There is excellent advice for our graduates based on the story of the rebellion of Korach from this week’s parsha....
by sr2018wp | Jun 10, 2015 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
The tallit is one of the most familiar symbols of Judaism. The commandment behind the tallit is found at the end of our parsha, in the mitzvah to wear tzizit, string fringes at the edges of any four cornered garment. Tzitzit is so fundamental to Judaism, that the...
by sr2018wp | Jun 4, 2015 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
“But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.” This week’s parsha in the book of Bamidbar, contains the first reference to the different sounds of the shofar that we are commanded to hear on Rosh Hashana. God asks...