Tomorrow morning, my baby gets on the bus for seven weeks away. Over the last few weeks I’ve been telling her about all the things she’s going to experience at camp – the decisions she will be able to make without me telling her what to do, the friends she’s going to make fro...
The term "Sabbath" comes from the Hebrew word "Shabbat," which means "rest" or "cessation." The Sabbath is observed as a day of rest and worship, a time for spiritual renewal, communal worship, and a break from the regular routines of work. The specific practices associated with the Sab...
Long live Desmond Tutu’s vision of a world free of oppression — a world in which so many of the politicians praising him today would be in front of a truth and reconciliation commission tomorrow, if Tutu were calling the shots. Amandla awethu. Our time will come. Erin Eldridge December...
This was primarily meant to be a fun adventure, but we had several “missions” while we were there: to deliver copies of my books—which you can’t get in South Africa because PJ Library is a bit more “traditional” there; to spend Shabbat with Netzer Machaneh, a weeklong summer camp...
Friday is shabbat, and we continue to observe our tradition of a rotisserie chicken, a loaf of challah, and some vegetable on the side. One night, we may have some variation onThe Pasta of Infinite Blandness. One night is a dinner of convenience food driven by something canned, boxed, ...
Another important date in May is Lyar 22. Consider this, God commanded The Sabbath AFTER He sent the Bread from Heaven, the 22 Lyar 1313 BCE. On that friday morning, enough manna fell for two days’ worth of meals, as on the Shabbat it would be prohibited to gather the manna. ...
On Sunday, the White House announced that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had spoken by phone with Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat “to express the United States’ serious concerns” over violent confrontations in and around the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem...
Thursday we kept close touch with the camp, and there was little improvement…Friday, their was no word, so I was feeling uplifted. Off to the grocery store to get food for a nice dinner. I bought my Shabbat Candles, and picked up some fresh flowers…All set. When I got home I beg...
and something difficult or challenging. We are not huge holiday people, but every year for Hanukkah we invite our oldest local relatives (in their late 80s) over for a very competitive dreidel smackdown. We also have shabbat dinner every week even though we’re fairly unobservant otherwise. Du...
Independently written texts and traditions, to answer this section’s question directly. We will return to this topic later, but presently we need to get our heads around the word “Bible” and all that it implies and invokes. For instance, the question ‘what is the Bible?’ already presup...