May 5, 2021 – 23 Iyar 5781 Speaker of the Knesset, my dear friends in the Labor faction: Omer, Emily, Efrat, Ram and Ibtisam; my inspirational – and dare I say faithful – friend MK Meirav Michaeli; and all members of the Knesset Before I begin, I must pay my respects to the memory of […]
By Rabbi Galit Cohen-Kedem We are happy to announce that Kehillat Kodesh v’Hol – our congregation in the city of Holon, Israel has finally received an allocation of land from the city council, after a 7 year struggle! The city of Holon, just outside of Tel-Aviv, is the 10th largest city in Israel with approximately […]
By Rabbi Josh Weinberg Friday, May 7, 2021 – כ”ה באייר תשפ”א 40th Day of the Omer וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה בְּהַר סִינַי לֵאמֹר׃ דַּבֵּר אֶל־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְאָמַרְתָּ אֲלֵהֶם כִּי תָבֹאוּ אֶל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי נֹתֵן לָכֶם וְשָׁבְתָה הָאָרֶץ שַׁבָּת לַיהוָה׃ Adonai spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai: “Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: […]
עַל־אֵלֶּה אֲנִי בוֹכִיָּה עֵינִי עֵינִי יֹרְדָה מַּיִם כִּי־רָחַק מִמֶּנִּי מְנַחֵם מֵשִׁיב נַפְשִׁי הָיוּ בָנַי שׁוֹמֵמִים כִּי גָבַר אוֹיֵב׃ (איכה א:טז) “For these things do I weep, My eyes flow with tears: Far from me is any comforter Who might revive my spirit; My children are forlorn, For the foe has prevailed.” (Lamentations 1:16) Our hearts […]
By Rabbi Josh Weinberg April 23, 2021 – י”א באייר התשפ”א “We have come to our homeland in order to be planted in our natural soil from which we have been uprooted, to strike our roots deep into its life-giving substances, and to stretch out our branches in the sustaining and creative air and sunlight […]
By Rabbi Josh Weinberg April 15th 2021 – ג’ באייר תשפ”א Last year at this time I wrote about the word פרגון. It is a very Israeli term that comes from the Yiddish פארגינען (which seems to derive from the German, Vergönnen). Firgun (pronounced FEER-GOON, פרגון) is a Hebrew word that does not have […]
Zionist Beit Midrash Join us on Tuesday April 13th at 8pm ET/5pm PT, Erev Yom HaZikaron, for a special session that will be taught by three presenters, Rabbi Natan Trief, Shai Zurim, & Dr. Ilana Kwartin, who will share about their IDF service. Each will teach one text that connects to their experience and the […]
April 9, 2021 – כ”ז בניסן תשפ”א In one short week, we marked our people’s Exodus from Egypt, the splitting of the sea, and our formative moments of becoming a free people on our way to our Land. We commemorated the 6 million Jewish victims of the Shoah and many more millions of human beings […]
By Rabbi Josh Weinberg April 2nd, 2021 – כ’ בניסן תשפ”א Rabbi Meir said: When B’nei Yisrael stood by the Red Sea, the tribes strove with one another, each wishing to descend into the sea first. Then sprang forward the tribe of Binyamin and descended first into the sea; as it is said, … […]
By Rabbi Josh Weinberg March 26, 2021 – י”ג בניסן תשפ”א Last year as we ended our Seder with “Next Year […]
