We sit in the sukkah and look up through the roof at the sky.Will there be rain, storm, heat, drought? That is important to know for the next harvest. We also look up at the sky, hoping for a year of health and safety. The sukkah is there to remind us that nature and life […]
When I was in elementary school in the fifth grade (in the 50’s!), we began a club. A secret club, of course, exciting! We started with about 10 children, who all wanted to do something together. But what? That was never really clear, except for eating candy and drinking lemonade together. It diluted quickly, and
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This is a text as an appeal to each other and to everyone who realizes what real freedom is and how fragile it is if we are not alert. Whether you call that praying or something else, that does not matter. — YHVH, Protector of those who love democracy, give us the strength to protect
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In the late 1990s I spent ten years with Rabbi Yehuda Aschkenasy z.l. in a lern-group with people of the post-war generation, with many traumas passed on from our parents. He helped us look at it in a positive way and we helped each other by recognizing and acknowledging our grief. I made reports of
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