By Phreddy Nosanwisch “Chaim,” our two-year-old, hadn’t gone past the threshold of our two-bedroom apartment in over two weeks. We had a blast making cake until I wouldn’t let him eat the batter with raw egg yolks. Then he screamed and cried and threw sticky spoons and fistful … [Read more...] about Love Neither Slumbers nor Sleeps
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The Mountain and The Ocean:
Navigating Digital Torah
By Sara Wolkenfeld
With Shavuot just behind us, the quintessential encounter with Torah may appear in our mind’s eye as a set of tablets, finite and concrete, presented from the top of a mountain. Engaging with Torah, however, is perhaps more often and more accurately d … [Read more...] about The Mountain and The Ocean:
Navigating Digital Torah
Jewish Education is an Essential Service, During Crisis and Always
By Elana G. Kahn Why would I upend my life during a global pandemic, leaving a stable, decades-long position that is vitally important to our Jewish community, to move to an urban COVID-19 hotspot? The answer lies in understanding what is essential. As director of the … [Read more...] about Jewish Education is an Essential Service, During Crisis and Always
What Would Moses Say? Of Nietzsche, Hitler and the Freedom to Hurt Others (Shavuot 5780)
By Andrés Spokoiny Nietzsche is probably one of the most misunderstood and manipulated philosophers in history. The most pernicious manipulation of him was done, of course, by the Nazis, who turned his inversion of the traditional concept of “natural law” into a justification f … [Read more...] about What Would Moses Say? Of Nietzsche, Hitler and the Freedom to Hurt Others (Shavuot 5780)
Torah as a Cottage Industry
By Rabbi Simcha Weiser We enter the holiday of Shavuot with visions of several million Jewish people gathered at the foot of Mt. Sinai, hearing the Ten Commandments spoken from on high. They then returned to their tents and for the next 40 years as they traveled through the … [Read more...] about Torah as a Cottage Industry
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