Jul 27, 2020 | Blogging from the Bimah
The fourth chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes begins as follows: “I further observed all the oppression that goes on under the sun: the tears of the oppressed, with none to comfort them.” The ancient sages asked: Who are these oppressors of whom the...
Feb 27, 2020 | Blogging from the Bimah
As Jewish Disabilities Awareness & Inclusion Month wraps up, we want to share an exceptional D’var Torah delivered by Yoni Avitan, Educational Director at the NOAM Youth Movement and the Shaliach to USY (United Synagogue Youth). He was invited to speak at...
Dec 5, 2019 | Blogging from the Bimah
In his evocative D’var Torah, Aklilu Dunlap, Masorti board member and new Bar Mitzvah “boy,”connects Parashat Toldat, the story of Rebecca, Isaac and Esau, to the rights, or lack of rights, of women at that time and to this day in Orthodox and...
Oct 7, 2019 | Blogging from the Bimah
In a wide-ranging and profound Rosh HaShanah sermon, Rabbi Ari Sunshine of Congregation Shearith Israel in Dallas, Texas, talks about the Israel’s “70 faces, enabling different points of connection for each individual or group in their experience of...
Aug 19, 2019 | Blogging from the Bimah
Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson, Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of American Jewish University in Los Angeles, sent us a warm and wonderful story. “I wanted to share with you the happy photo of some of our incoming new Ziegler students proudly...
Jul 21, 2019 | Blogging from the Bimah
Rabbi Alan Silverstein, a prominent New Jersey Conservative rabbi, former member of the Masorti Foundation Board and current president of Mercaz Olami, analyzes the recent JPPI study, Rising Streams, and does a masterful job de-bunking the myths about Masorti Judaism...
