Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, December 28, 2021
This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Va-eira, moves the tale of our ancestors’ servitude in Egypt toward redemption, as Moses confronts Pharaoh and unleashes the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, December 27, 2021
Last week, Jews throughout the world once again began the Book of Exodus, returning to the beginning of our people’s story of oppression [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, December 24, 2021
This Shabbat we begin our reading of the Book of Exodus. We move from the family sagas of Genesis to a story of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, December 23, 2021
For many of us, the circumstances of the past twenty months have kept us at home far more than we planned for or [...]
Search for Meaning with Jonathan Shapiro and Rabbi Yoshi
Join Rabbi Yoshi for a conversation with Emmy and Peabody Award winning writer Jonathan Shapiro. After representing the United States as a prosecutor [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Teach these words to your children and speak of them–when you sit in your house, when you go by the way, when you [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, December 21, 2021
My nephew was born in the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic last January. His birth was, like every baby’s, a miraculous moment [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, December 20, 2021
Stephen Sondheim, the beloved Jewish-American musical composer, passed away four weeks ago yesterday. His influence on musical theatre composition was unparalleled, his flair [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, December 17, 2021
This Shabbat we read the last Torah portion in the book of Genesis. It includes a special blessing that Jacob, on his deathbed, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, December 16, 2021
Jewish Parents, Grandparents, and Christmas Many Jewish parents and grandparents worry their children and grandchildren will feel “left out” during the Christmas season. [...]