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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

Carving New Tablets

Ki Tissa 5776/ 27 February 2016

רָאִיתִי אֶת־כָּל־הַמַּֽעֲשִׂים שֶֽׁנַּֽעֲשׂוּ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ וְהִנֵּה הַכֹּל הֶבֶל וּרְעוּת רֽוּחַ: מְעֻוָּת לֹֽא־יוּכַל לִתְקֹן וְחֶסְרוֹן לֹֽא־יוּכַל לְהִמָּנֽוֹת: I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun: and, behold, all… Read More

Posted: February 29, 2016 by
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