tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: May 2010
http://tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Friday, May 28, 2010. Yesterday was the last day of classes at Pardes - bittersweet, for sure. Now, everyone's caught up in the whirlwind of packing up and saying goodbye. But amidst all that hullabaloo, here's some Torah from my last gemara class.*. The mishnah (Bavli Sotah, 45b) goes on to say:. לא בא לידינו ופטרנוהו, לא ראינוהו והנחנוהו. The gemara (Masechet Sotah 46b) asks the question - how is it that this corpse got there in the first place?
tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: Airplanes, Taxis, Buses, Boats, Trains...and a Ferris Wheel?!
http://tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com/2011/04/airplanes-taxis-buses-boats-trainsand.html
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Friday, April 22, 2011. Airplanes, Taxis, Buses, Boats, Trains.and a Ferris Wheel? Lida, Belarus, 2nd night of Pesach:. What does the salt water represent? What does maror represent? Jewish pain all through history. With the elderly Jews of Grodno, had a surprise motorboat ride in a lake in Lida with Igor, and watched a cantorial festival, featuring costumes slightly reminiscent of the Sound of Music. We spent hours talking with our translator...
tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: July 2010
http://tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Sunday, July 11, 2010. Danny Sanderson - HaGalshan. יום בהיר של שמש. It's a clear, sunny day/there are no clouds/me and all my peeps/are going to the beach/we take the car/the girls are already there). From The New York Times, about a women's only park in Afghanistan, particularly the description of how women take off their usual modest clothing once they are away from male gaze. This then leads me to the question of what specifically is drivi...
tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: For Zion's Sake I Will Not Be Silent
http://tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com/2011/05/for-zions-sake-i-will-not-be-silent.html
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Wednesday, May 4, 2011. For Zion's Sake I Will Not Be Silent. Please check out the blog post. I wrote for Rabbis for Human Rights-North America in response to the recent articles ( here. By Daniel Gordis about rabbinical students and Israel. And in other, related news, today I bought this poster. At the Israel Museum. Better watch what pictures of it get posted on Facebook.wouldn't want anyone to get the wrong message! View my complete profile.
tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: December 2010
http://tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com/2010_12_01_archive.html
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Sunday, December 26, 2010. Overheard at מסרד הפנים - the Ministry of the Interior. Standing in line in a tiny corridor not wide enough for 2 people). Young Haredi man: Is this where you come to make a visa appointment? Older Haredi man: Yes. Young Haredi man: If it's just appointments, why is it taking so long? Older Haredi man: You come here, you come to Africa. Labels: life in Israel. Saturday, December 25, 2010. Monday, December 13, 2010. In Is...
tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: Leaving Jerusalem
http://tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com/2011/06/leaving-jerusalem.html
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Tuesday, June 7, 2011. I wrote this while flying from Israel to New York a few weeks ago. It will most likely be my last post on this blog, which I started in order to reflect on my own experiences living in Jerusalem for two years, and to share them with all of you. May 20, 2011. El Al #1, TLV-JFK. Somewhere over Newfoundland…. This year we have been studying Masechet Shabbat. At our final meeting as chevruta (for now), we studied a sugya. Centur...
richardsilverstein.com
Jews & Judaism Archives - Tikun Olam תיקון עולם
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/category/jews-judaism
Tikun Olam תיקון עולם. Promoting Israeli democracy, exposing secrets of the national security state. Baby Adele: Stolen by Israeli Welfare Ministry from Israeli-Palestinian Couple, Placed for Orthodox Adoption. May 26, 2016. Liberal Democrats, Millenials Massively Increase Support for Palestinians, Decrease Support for Israel. May 24, 2016. Guardian’s Peter Beaumont “Piles on” Ken Livingstone, Mangles Nazi-Era and Zionist History. May 1, 2016. NOTE: It's important to understand what my two posts about th...
tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: Overheard at HUC
http://tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com/2010/12/overheard-at-huc.html
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Saturday, December 25, 2010. At Shabbat services, December 25, 2010. Small tourist child: When are we going to the church? Love Christmas-Shabbos in Jerusalem! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Living and learning in Jerusalem! Thoughts, reflections, and learnings as I "see what kind of country it is." (Numbers 13:18). View my complete profile. People I like and what they write:. When We Say Goodbye. Vayikra: Restoring the Fires of Israel.
tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: November 2010
http://tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Thursday, November 25, 2010. First D'var Torah.as a rabbinical student! This is the d'var Torah I gave at HUC services this morning. It's on this week's Torah portion, Vayeshev,. Focusing on Genesis 38. It was really special to be able to give the d'var Torah while my parents and brother were here too! We hear of a woman in this week’s parasha. Let’s rewind. We hear of a woman in this week’s parasha. So which is she? Could happen with any male rel...
tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od: Yom Hashoah 5771
http://tovahhaaretz.blogspot.com/2011/05/yom-hashoah-5771.html
Tovah ha'aretz m'od m'od. See what kind of country it is. Monday, May 2, 2011. Today, Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day, I sat in a class at HUC on the difficult theologies that the Holocaust raises. What was God's role in the Shoah - a perpetrator or a bystander? Does the Shoah require a theological response? How do I think about this today, on this particular Yom Hashoah? We are all בני אלוהים bnei Elohim. Children of God, we are all בצלם אלוהים. Yet we also pray, I pray, every day in the. וכל או...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT