Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Each year, countless Jewish communities around the globe, including ours, read the Natan Alterman poem Magash HaKesef (The Silver Platter), as part of their Yom [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, April 15, 2025
My favorite line from the Passover story is one that is met with little fanfare. We cannot find it in the Haggadah and it [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, April 3, 2025
This week’s parashah, Vayikra, the first in the Book of Leviticus, introduces our forebears’ manual for creating and sustaining holiness among the Israelites, beginning [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, April 2, 2025
This week’s parashah, Vayikra, the first in the Book of Leviticus, introduces our forebears’ manual for creating and sustaining holiness among the Israelites, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, April 1, 2025
This week’s parashah, Vayikra, the first in the Book of Leviticus, introduces our forebears’ manual for creating and sustaining holiness among the Israelites, beginning [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, March 31, 2025
This week’s parashah, Vayikra, the first in the Book of Leviticus, introduces our forebears’ manual for creating and sustaining holiness among the Israelites—beginning with [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, March 6, 2025
Today is National Oreo Day, a whimsical festival established to appreciate the cultural significance of America’s most popular cookie. For Jews, however, the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, March 5, 2025
The festival of Purim articulates how navigating the tension between being a part of and apart from the society in which we [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Today is National Hug-a-GI day, started in 1996 by Adrienne Koopersmith to appreciate active duty members of the Armed Services.* As we [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, March 3, 2025
As we enter the Hebrew month of Adar (today is the third of Adar), we begin preparing in earnest for the festival [...]