by Cindy Warren | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
This week I would like to share an article by Rabbi Sacks on this week’s Parshat Vayeshev: Vayeshev (5771) – Speech Therapy
by Cindy Warren | Dec 4, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
Each week the leadership of our school takes the time to study Torah. Our focus this year is on tefilla, the daily prayers, and we are currently studying the morning blessings. The purpose of the morning blessings is to wake us up spiritually and to enable us to be...
by Cindy Warren | Nov 27, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
One of the highlights of the parsha this week is the dream of Jacob, where he has a vision of angels ascending and descending a ladder. There are multiple interpretations of this dream and its purpose in shaping the future of Jacob as the father of the nation of...
by Cindy Warren | Nov 19, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
Kol Yisrael Areivim zeh bazeh. כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה I am writing to you today because our family is in mourning. We are crying together with our family in Israel for the loss of lives of fathers, grandfathers, husbands and friends, who were taken so cruelly...
by Cindy Warren | Nov 19, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
We are all feeling an enormous sense of tragedy following the events of the week. Our hearts and prayers are still focused on those families. However, like the men who returned to pray the next morning in that very same synagogue, we must move forward. In the midst of...
by Cindy Warren | Nov 13, 2014 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
This week’s parsha was my Bat Mitzvah parsha, (sometime in the 1970s shall we say…). As time passes and my kids get older, I reflect more on aging. I often don’t “feel” my age, and whenever I go to weddings, I still feel like a 25 year old. Right then, my kids, (and...