If I Am Not For Myself
Here in America in 2024, the danger is approaching the level of Nazi Germany in the early 1930s. Now, as then, the antisemitic wave originated in the universities.
Word Prompt – PLAYFUL – Solly Hess
Anyone who has been involved in chinuch, either as an educator or a parent, knows that adding playfulness, whimsy, and fun are the secret, critical ingredients to a love of learning.
Word Prompt – PLAYFUL – Rachel Tuchman
Playfulness can turn the harshness of reality into something that is more manageable. It helps us to relax and regulate our nervous system which makes for better processing and coping.
Word Prompt – PLAYFUL – Pesha Kletenik
When I close my eyes, thirty years ago at Camp Stone feels like yesterday, the lessons from holding candles by the lake on Tisha B’Av and hiding from the Greeks at late night capture the flag, will be part of me forever. Playing is learning, posting is not.
Word Prompt – PLAYFUL – Ruchama Feuerman
The idea behind play therapy is, some feelings are too intense for a child to express in words, but a child’s play can reveal and articulate a world of complex emotions – to one who knows how to observe.
Word Prompt – PLAYFUL – Tamir Goodman
When it comes to sports, it’s key for adults to emphasize life skills learned from the game, rather than focusing on winning and losing.
Fleeting Moments On The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s 30th Yahrzeit
Seemingly after seeing how all of the work that his father-in-law invested in the movement might fizzle away, he accepted the role. Now as leader, Rebbe Mendel Schneerson – who over the decades many began to refer as the Rebbe – steered the movement into being a global Jewish outreach organization.
30 Years After Gimmel Tammuz, Chabad Is As Ubiquitous As Coca-Cola
It is impossible to fully encapsulate the impact or the influence of the Rebbe in a single article. Growing up as a young emissary (shliach) in Louisville, Kentucky, I rarely saw the Rebbe in person, but I witnessed the effect of his teachings and worldview every single day.
Lessons From The Rebbe
A visitor to the Rebbe said, Rebbe you are amazing! The Rebbe didn’t deflect the compliment or return it. Instead, he answered, True, I am amazing. But how does the world benefit from the fact that I am amazing? Do I do enough with it?
My Rebbe Stories
As is customary, I took a little Tehillim off the bookshelf, stood by the kever, and let the Tehillim fall open, on its own, to whichever perek it chose.
It fell open to Perek 78. Or, in Hebrew, ayin zayin.
Oz.
Dementia Diary – Chapter 90
It has been hard to train my brain to stay in the moment. I do this for my own sanity. Once the brain begins to spiral out-of-control, I can no longer function with the responsibilities that life has thrust upon me.
Safeguarding Minhagim From The Nazi Era
Some of his many achievements include his promotion of Shabbat observance in Germany, and his role as editor of a monthly journal titled Der Sabbath from 1910 until 1914 – when WWI ceased publication.
Jews In New Amsterdam In The 1600s And The Antisemitism Of Peter Stuyvesant
Leading the antisemitic discrimination against the Jews in New Amsterdam was Stuyvesant, who was strongly committed to the supremacy of the Dutch Reformed Church, determined to promote morality and social cohesion through the enforcement of Calvinist orthodoxy, and unwavering in his desire to deport Jews from the colony.
Word Prompt – HAMBURGER – Kylie Ora Lobell
Today, I love trying to recreate those moments with my husband and daughters and make new memories that will surely last a lifetime.
Word Prompt – HAMBURGER – Ziona Greenwald
Grilling with our family alongside others of various stripes, brothers and sisters all, filled me with a rush of pride and sense of belonging that Fourth of July celebrations never quite did.
Word Prompt – HAMBURGER – Yonatan Milevsky
In the Talmud, foods are class-based. You just do not read of rabbis stating that they drink the common beverage, date beer, but only if it is of the single origin variety, brewed locally in Neharda'ah.
Word Prompt – HAMBURGER – Naomi Nachman
I have a rule though: once you flavor and layer your hamburger with whatever you want, you cannot put it down. Otherwise, you risk ruining the sandwich by making the bread soggy with all the juices that come out.
Word Prompt – HAMBURGER – Ann D. Koffsky
Most importantly, the backyard barbeque is a way for us to just get together and have fun eating and schmoozing.
Dementia Diary – Chapter 89
This is not the first time that Hubby has called me mama, although usually he self-corrects, and says Oh yes – I should not call you that! You are my wife.
Subverting America
Everywhere we look, America is in disarray. From transgenderism to diversity, equity, and inclusion, to the concept of toxic masculinity, to extreme environmentalism, to the growing abandonment of Judeo-Christian religious values, to moves to break up the traditional nuclear family, our entire culture is being turned upside-down.
Anatoly Kaplan’s Lithographs
Soviet Russia's complex pact, and later disbandment, with the Nazis left a troubling legacy in Soviet Russia, and mention of the Holocaust and the murder of Jews was forbidden.
Gandhi’s Anti-Zionism And The Absurdity Of His Pacifism During The Holocaust
Some authorities suggest that he adopted his views on Jews because he understood Judaism only through the lens of Christianity and that he reduced Judaism to a religion without considering its nationalistic character and, as such, he excluded Zionism from the Jewish identity.
Word Prompt – SANHEDRIN – Chaim Saiman
It is hard to imagine the study of Torah without debate and machloket – indeed what would the Talmud look like shorn of the multiplicity of debates and disagreements that propel its dialogue forward?
Word Prompt – SANHEDRIN – Michael Helfand
To think of the Sanhedrin as merely an institutional feature of enforcing Jewish law would be to miss the central role Jewish legal institutions – whether it be the Sanhedrin of old or the modern day beit din – play in the ethics of Jewish law.
Word Prompt – SANHEDRIN – Shmuel Phillips
As a number of traditional sources point out, such legislation of the details of biblical law was not decided solely upon the basis of decoding the text or Talmudic logic.
Word Prompt – SANHEDRIN – Shlomo Litvin
Instead of the lofty goal of creating a Sanhedrin with the intent of creating consensus and unity, we could start the other way around. Start off with achdus, and a global movement to increase ahavas Yisrael among our people.
Word Prompt – SANHEDRIN – Shlomo Zuckier
The Greek term Sanhedrin reflects a new name given to the zekeinim we know from the Torah. So Sanhedrin represents Jewish ability to determine law and justice, even as it is subjugated under an outside imperial culture.
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