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  The summer month of Tammuz starts this week and soon we turn to three weeks of lamenting over the

  There we saw the giants, the Children of Anak who come from the giants – we were in our

  The Book of Numbers, in Hebrew, B’midbar, “In the Wilderness”, raises a wonderful question, as described and explored in

  This week in the Book of Numbers, we find two unusual practices right next to each other. The first

  What a week in Israel – the recognition of a fundamental truth that everyone already knows – that Israel’s

  As we conclude the reading of the “holiness code” and the Book of Leviticus this week, we cannot help

  This past Wednesday evening May 2, marked LaG b’Omer – the 33rd of the Omer – a minor celebration

The mind-body connection is a two-way street. In this week’s two Torah readings we grapple with the issues of unknown

Wednesday night and Thursday, April 11-12 this year, are Yom Ha-Shoa-ah – Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel, and for Jews

This is and Shabbat ha-Chodesh (“Shabbat of the Month”), the Shabbat celebrating the beginning of the month of Nisan, and