This week’s portion of the Torah begins with the words, “You shall charge the sons of Israel, that they bring you clear oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.” In the Hebrew version the word תמיד (tamid) is used and the question is what is...
Giving is integral to being Jewish. The period of time we are beginning now is a special time where we talk and deal with giving, making donations, investing in doing good, it enforces our Judaism, makes it present in our lives, our families lives, our congregations’ a...
This is a special Shabbat in general and especially for me, because this Shabbat Shekalim is also the very Shabbat when I was called to the Torah for the first time. Then, in February 1969 there was no Reform congregation in Netanya, and I suppose that we were not even...
Ten Commandments. The essence of the essence. The words of law, that echo for thousands of years of judicial development. Today I would like to review only three, the second, fourth and sixth commandments. Each of the ten is worthy to be talked about as each engulfs an...
