The very first bible story in Parsha Bereishis, just after the Six Days of Creation, is Adam & Eve and the Two Trees in the Garden of Eden: The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge. It’s such a … Read the rest
Tishrei is the Hebrew month of Jewish Fall holidays from Rosh Hashanah to Simchas Torah and everything in between. Now that we celebrated all these wonderful holidays as a campus community here’s a short story and a parable as food-for-thought. … Read the rest
There’s a long, long backstory to this, both about who the late Dr. Herman Prins Salomon was, and our relationship with him, as well as how and why 180 large totes of his books and papers in five-plus different languages … Read the rest
We got a page plus of a handwritten letter on a lined notebook page from a woman (whom we do not know) who live a few counties south of us, whose son (age 42 and father of 4) is from … Read the rest
Below is a selection of posts and materials we’ve shared over the years for Yom Kippur. Some alumni have asked us for these materials, so we’ve collected a good deal of what we have online into one handy & accessible … Read the rest
First a little background: The Sukkah has to be covered by cut vegetation – called “Schach” – (that isn’t made yet into something specific). Most of our Sukkah is covered by bamboo mats which fit the halachic requirements for Sukkah … Read the rest
On the Sat Night before Rosh Hashanah, a student burst in to our Havdalah and Pizza, laptop in hand, got right to work, immersed and invested, focused like I’ve hardly ever seen him! It took a lull in his action … Read the rest
I was driving around doing some errands before Shabbat a week or two ago and WAMC had a nutritionist named Nicole Rodriguez on their VoxPop call-in show program. OK, I know I could lose weight and all that, but it … Read the rest
We got a page plus of a handwritten letter on a lined notebook page from a woman (whom we do not know) who live a few counties south of us, whose son (age 42 and father of 4) is from … Read the rest