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. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Why this Jew likes the Christmas Season I’ve never celebrated Christmas. And yet, I’ve come to increasingly appreciate and look forward to the Christmas [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, December 14, 2021
The National Basketball Association In yesterday’s Daily Kavanah, I applauded the Women’s Tennis Association’s (WTA) decision to not compete in China due to the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, December 13, 2021
Kudos to Women’s Tennis Last month I became a fan of women’s tennis. Here’s why. In November, Chinese Tennis star Peng Shuai alleged [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, December 10, 2021
One of my favorite poems in our siddur (prayer book) is by Leah Goldberg (1911-1970). Goldberg was born in Lithuania and after receiving a Ph.D. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, December 9, 2021
I just finished reading Dara Horn’s book, gruesomely titled People Love Dead Jews. In addition to being a disturbing read, it is also quite [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, December 8, 2021
The LA Times columnist, LZ Granderson, questions his own attraction to the HBO series Succession despite the extraordinary levels of dysfunction, cruelty, and sheer greed [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, December 7, 2021
As the Biblical Jacob is about to die, he calls his son Joseph to his bedside and asks for Joseph’s sons to be [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, December 6, 2021
In one televised version of Joseph and The Technicolor Dreamcoat, Donny Osmond played Joseph. The irony of a quintessential American non-Jew playing the role [...]