Chanukah Candle #5. Chamesh (Hebrew), pět (Czech), öt (Hungarian), talliman (North Alaskan Iñupiaq). Happy Fifth Night of Chanukah. Blog Tzedakah:Remember, for each comment written today, I will donate tzedakah. Through your comments over four days, we have donated a total of $138.00! What’s today’s tzedakah recipient? Scroll below. Chanukah Blog Thots: Chanukah is a holiday …
I saw this on The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy Blog. One of many irreverent Chanukah cards. Check the rest out here. But only if you don’t get offended easily.
And as the world remains focused on our collective pocketbooks, the tragedy in Darfur, Sudan continues and widens to Chad and beyond. The Washington Post’s Travis Fox and others have compiled this interactive, wide-ranging report, updating the situation in Darfur and its environs. Read on.
Remember when legos were so simple all you could do was create buildings? First there was Legoland. Now there’s Lego Torah. Here’s some Torah study for the child in us. The Brick Testament offers its rendition of the Torah using only legos. Its amazing. Each story has 10-15 different lego scenes with explanation. From this …
Or Ami’s Confirmation Class was featured on the Reform Movement’s national blog, RJ.org in a posting called Confirming the Diversity within the Reform Movement. Great picture too!
Larry Gellman, a former member of my friend’s congregation, reflected thoughtfully in his blog, Thoughts from the Desert, on the Madoff affair. Gellman writes: Time Magazine‘s article entitled, “How I Got Screwed By Bernie Madoff,” was written by investor Robert Chew. He explains that all of his money and that of his wife’s entire family …
Chanukah Candle #4. Arbah (Hebrew), cuatro (Spanish), maha (Tahitian), chwar (Kurdish).Happy Fourth Night of Chanukah. Chanukah Blog Thots: A StoryLearned from Rabbi Cheryl PeretzThere is wonderful Hasidic story, told of a conversation between the rabbi and a member of his community. The man once asked: “Rabbi, what is a Jew’s task in this world?” The …
Chanukah Candle #3. Shalosh, tres, three. Happy Third Night of Chanukah (a special one for me because it is also my birthday!) Blog Tzedakah: The nine of you who left comments yesterday ensured that collectively, we donated $27 of my money to the Brandon Kaplan Special Needs program which ensures that kids with special needs …
Recently, an HUC student emailed me for help getting people to take a survey about Millennials working in the Jewish community. I learned real quickly that I was too old for that. So I sent it onto members of our faculty. Then comes a book, Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your …
Great new Chanukah song. When is Hanukkah this Year? By Melee(an Orange County based band)Listen to it on their Myspace. Also, catch their website. Third from left, Mike, is from Calabasas, CAFourth from left, Rick, is my friend Pam’s cousin. Thanks to Pam for bringing it to my attention.
More Torah cartoons at www.g-dcast.com Hmmm, 7 years of plenty followed by 7 years of famine.Joseph got it right and saved up.America apparently didn’t. We consumed our riches instead of planning for the future. Where could we have been if we: produced energy efficient automobiles (now we are bailing out the car companies) provided real …
Chanukah Candle #2. Shtayeem, dos, du, shay-nee, ʼiṯnān (Arabic), dua (Indonesian), ʻe-lua (Hawaiian, for the new President-elect), twai (Gothic), yerkou (Armenian), two. Happy Second Night of Chanukah. Blog Tzedakah: The five of you who left comments yesterday ensured that collectively, we donated $15 of my money to the Adopt a Child Abuse Caseworker (ACAC) program …
#1, one, uno, echad, harishon, un, first night, nowit all starts with one who hopes. Welcome to the Rabbipaul’s 8 Blogs for 8 Nights of Chanukah, the first of eight awesome blogs to brighten your Chanukah celebration. [All the Chanukah celebration resources you want are here.] Blog Tzedakah: Leave a comment (below) on this blog …
Politically it was both brilliantly strategic (if you want to show yourself as being open to diverse opinions and a wide variety of religious perspectives) and very disappointing (for it does not move us beyond this nonsensical discriminatory way our state and country deals with gay men and lesbians). Thus I signed onto a letter …
I signed onto interfaith petition to President Elect Obama on Climate Control. You can sign on too here. Call for Climate ActionInterfaith Petition toPresident-elect Barack Obama We, the undersigned, of diverse faith traditions, stand together as brothers and sisters dedicated to finding solutions to global warming and the threat it poses to Creation. We urge …