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Doing Our Part

Pekudei 5776/ 12 March 2016

I find myself asking the same question every year around this time: how many years of tax returns do I need to keep in my files, and when can I… Read More

Posted: March 14, 2016 by

The World of “Social” and Relational Judiasm

I slyly pulled my laptop out of my backpack and settled into my theater seat at the SVA Theater in Chelsea, reassuring myself that as a professional Jew, it was… Read More

Posted: March 9, 2016 by

Visionary Mirrors, Lipstick of Resistance & the Copper Wash Basin

Vayakhel 5776/ 5 March 2016 Co-written by Rabbi Annie Lewis

Zainab Salbi grew up in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted eight years. She remembers waking up in the middle of the night to the sound of heavy explosions and to… Read More

Posted: March 7, 2016 by and

Mazel Tov to Jordan!

Jordan Carrier is a 7th grader at Masterman School. She has attended BZBI’s Hebrew School (and before that, Tot Shabbat) regularly since she was 3 years old. Jordan plays basketball… Read More

Posted: March 2, 2016 by

Old Culture Makes Jewish New

Contemporary Yiddish culture provides a vehicle that sates and enriches the ethnic, religious, political, and ancestral aspects of my Jewish identity. For me and many others, klezmer music – the… Read More

Posted: March 2, 2016 by
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