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Speech, Stories, and Slavery
Shabbat HaGadol 5776/16 April 2016
In the brisk Latvian autumn of 1963, sixteen-year-old Yosef Mendelevich learned of a small group of Jews who spent Sundays in a pine forest outside Riga known as Rumbuli. On… Read More
Where Have You Bean All My Life?
Tazria 5776/9 April 2016
On December 24, 2015, the Conservative Movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards approved two teshuvot[1] (Jewish legal opinions) dealing with the question of whether contemporary American Conservative Jews may eat… Read More
Spring is Hatching in our BZBI Pre-K!
Every year, during springtime, the school participates in an egg hatching project from Quiver Farm. This year “Farmer John” introduced us to Pearl the mother hen and Harold the father… Read More
Purim 2016 Reflections #itWASthewholemegillah
If you had to go on a date with a synagogue, what would be the best time to go on a first date? The High Holidays? They tend to be… Read More
The Eternal Light of Redemption
Tzav 5776/26 March 2016
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest… Read More
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