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...
Jun 7, 2019 | Blogging from the Bimah
To celebrate Shavuot, we share this deeply thoughtful teaching from Rabbi Mikie Goldstein, President of the Rabbinical Assembly and rabbi of Adat Shalom-Emanuel in Rehovot. The Time of Giving of Our Torah Wishing you and your family a happy and meaningful Shavuot. ...
Apr 18, 2019 | Blogging from the Bimah
Last Pesach, we published a profound and learned teaching by Rabbi Gordon Tucker. We don’t normally re-publish. So why now? Because it’s all about the “why?” “it is for this very reason that our ancestors were freed, and why people...
