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What could Darone possibly have to complain about when it comes to a mechitza? He doesn’t generally daven in Orthodox synagogues, and he isn’t a woman? That’s never stopped him before. That’s never stopped him before. Listen to his rant on this weeks episode of Kvetch. https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/kvetch/Mechitza.mp3Podcast: Download
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I don’t mean to kvetch, but can we talk about the Bris? That moment when a Jewish boy child enters into the community! What is it that annoys me about the bris? I bet you it is not what you think it is. Find out when you listen to this weeks episode of Kvetch. https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/kvetch/Bris.mp3Podcast: […]
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Over the past two years, influential Conservative rabbis have begun flirting with performing intermarriages and with relaxing conversion standards, or at least wringing their hands at Judaism’s traditional endogamy norm and the distress it is causing interfaith families. Given pervasive intermarriage — 58% of all American Jews marrying since 2000 wed gentiles — it may […]
A sermon by Rabbi David Ingber on Lech Lecha. For more information please visit romemu.org. https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/romemu/260.mp3Podcast: Download
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No matter how equally I raised my two children, my daughter’s first words focused on people’s names; my son’s first word was “truck.” Over the years each one of them has broadened the horizons of the other, and mine, as well. My son’s conversations are still the language of “stuff” – sports, politics, music, or […]
This is a time of transition. In Torah we are just completing the Book of Bereshit and its story of our individual ancestors. The book of Bereshit has allowed us to explore the lives of our founders. Each of them faced many transitions in their lives, as they moved from place to place. They each […]
When I was going off to kindergarten my mother bought me my very first Big Box of Crayola Crayons. Sixty-four shiny, pointy new crayons in colors I had never heard of. It even came complete with a sharpener built into the box! I was beside myself with excitement as I dreamed of the possibilities of […]
This week we move closer to the heart of Torah as we begin the book of Vayikra – “G-d called.” G-d’s message to Moses as this book begins is about the sacrifices our ancestors were to make as they moved through life. As we read through this Book over the next few weeks, we will […]
