Daily Kavanah – Thursday, February 29, 2024
One of my students from New York turns 6 today, maybe 7. But, he was my student starting 16 years ago. How’s that [...]
One of my students from New York turns 6 today, maybe 7. But, he was my student starting 16 years ago. How’s that [...]
Judaism is a religion of Original Repentance, not Original Sin.I do not remember the first time I learned that, or from whom, but [...]
I am not sure that any art exhibit has taken my breath away quite like the exhibit of Black American Portraits at [...]
Carter Woodson, the “father” of Black History set out in 1926 to designate a time to educate Americans about Black history and [...]
While I remember much of a hullabaloo surrounding Y2K, I actually do not remember the front page of the newspaper on January 1, [...]
While I am not usually a follower of such things, a recent journey down a Google rabbit hole led me to learn that [...]
It does not always line up perfectly, but I love the symmetry of beginning a new book of Torah at the beginning [...]
Good Tidings We Bring: A Message for Israel from Candy Cane Lane Rabbi Sari Laufer December 29, 2023 | 17 Tevet, 5784 [...]
When teaching the Jewish calendar, I always note that it is a bit of a mindbender to understand. From the time of the [...]
Tonight, we light the eighth candle of Hanukkah. One week ago, as we prepared to light the Hanukkah lights, the Jewish world — [...]