Our Neziner Hebrew School Enrichment children were excited to meet Yehuda Sichel head chef at Abe Fisher Restaurant located at 16th and Sansom Streets. Yehuda came here to BZBI and… Read More
Va-era 5776 / 9 January 2016
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell… Read More
The Book of Ecclesiastes opens with the bold statement, אֵ֥ין כָּל־חָדָ֖שׁ תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Eccl. 1:9). If we wanted to be snarky — and after all,… Read More
Vayehi 5776/ 26 December 2015
A friend once told me how his uncle — a well-respected Orthodox rabbi — sought another rabbi’s opinion about where to be buried. He had the opportunity to purchase a… Read More
Vayetze 5776 / 21 November 2015
One reading technique I learned from my teacher, Reb Mimi Feigelson, is something she calls “bracketed reading:” looking at just the first and last elements of a story, parshah, or even… Read More