Nine scrolls of Torah were snatched from the Maase Rokach synagogue in Brooklyn’s Midwood neighborhood Sunday morning – a break-in robbery that police said involved four thieves. According to The New York Times, the robbery took place early in the morning, and was only noticed later in the day, when someone in the synagogue observed…
“Which part of Torah do you want to study?” I asked Judy Clark at our first meeting. The gray-haired woman leaned across the table in the visitors’ room at Bedford Hills prison and answered immediately. “Isaiah.” she said. “I need to study Isaiah.” “Why?” I wondered. “Because I was just like him, believing I had…
In his Bar Mitzvah video, Adam Wolfond, a non-speaking autistic person who types to communicate, explores the story of Moses and the Golden Calf to ask: “Does the Torah book answer the reasons why I don’t talk?” Viewed as non-relational and unaware because of his autism label, Adam expresses his relationship to others, his environment…
(Reuters) – Prague’s medieval Old-New Synagogue received two new Torah scrolls on Sunday, the first ones since World War II shattered the country’s once-thriving Jewish community. The Torahs, funded by donations to the Prague Jewish community, were written in Israel and brought into the synagogue in a ceremony that included scripting of the final letters…
In this series I am responding to frequently asked questions about some gender-bending translations of Torah texts I have proposed in a few articles since 2008, and in a 2016 op-ed in The New York Times, “Is God Transgender?” So far, we have looked at Eve as “he;” Noah repairing to “her” tent; Rebecca, who…
Each Passover, as we gather around Seder tables with glasses of sweet wine and with plates overflowing with charoset, egg and bitter herbs, Jews read the words “Arami oved Avi,” which translates to “My father was a wandering Aramean.” Slavery and liberation are personal; we read the story in the first person: The Exodus happened…
Last week, I spoke on the topic of forgiveness at the Manhattan JCC. During the Q&A that followed, a woman in the back raised her hand. “Do we have to forgive?” she asked. As I began my response, a mutual friend nudged her. “Tell her the whole story,” she mouthed. She began again. “I was…
(JTA) — A Torah scroll valued at some $70,000 was stolen from a Jewish school in Lakewood, New Jersey. The Torah scroll was in a safe, which was removed by two burglars in a theft caught by a surveillance camera. The men have not yet been identified. The burglars reportedly entered the Cheder Torah Zev…
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