BOSTON -- The iPad app for the Mishkan T'filah, the Reform movement's daily prayer book, was launched. The new application, which costs less than $5, was launched at the annual gathering of the Central Council of American Rabbis that began Sunday in Boston....
Temple Shalom won the first turkey chili competition at the Kosher Chili Cook-Off in Dallas. More than 4,500 chili fans attended the competition at Tiferet Israel in Dallas. As always, the event featured meat and vegetarian categories, but turkey was...
By Haley Abramson, John Burroughs High School
• Published March 19, 2012
While many youngsters attend Sunday school and religious classes each week, often their knowledge about religions other than their own is lacking. Even teens with a good understanding of their religion don’t always know exactly what they are worshipping...
By Sarah Cohen, John Burroughs High School
• Published March 19, 2012
The social lives of both Jewish and non-Jewish seventh graders expand tremendously as they are invited to classmates’ bar and bat mitzvahs. However, recently these students’ social calendars have begun to overflow as their non-Jewish classmates throw...
Throughout the Jewish year there are several Shabbatot/Sabbaths which have an added significance. This week will end with one: Shabbat Parah (the Sabbath of Parah Adumah/the Red Heifer), one of a series of special Shabbatot which lead up to Passover....
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 14, 2012
Bigger. Better. Bolder. That’s the concept behind the second annual Festival of Jewish Life, set for March 18-25. The eight-day event will celebrate numerous aspects of Jewish life, among them music, movies, the arts and spirituality. The festival opens...
Letter provokes responses Norman Pressman raises an interesting point in his objection to the all-girls musical productions of Block Yeshiva and Bais Yaakov (Letter to the editor, Feb. 29). He is correct that I will not be able to attend my own daughter’s...
Crises in faith — we all have them at one time or another. Each of us can become overwhelmed by life and what it often brings to us when we have other plans. These crises can come from many different sources — the loss of a job, the death of a loved...
For the past several years, Bari and her parents, Suzy and Mark Weber of Chesterfield, had volunteered at United Hebrew’s Mitzvah Day. Bari loved making bracelets at the Circle of Hope station. So it was only natural for this to become one of her mitzvah...
BY RABBI DALE SCHREIBER
• Published February 29, 2012
This week’s portion, Tetzaveh, begins with commandments to raise an eternal flame and to find people who are wise hearted to build a sanctuary where God’s presence would be visible. Tetzaveh, from the root word command, is paired with a special Sabbath...
Aish HaTorah will honor Charles and Naomi Ruth Deutsch during its annual fundraising dinner Sunday, March 11.The Deutschs have a longstanding and deep relationship with Aish HaTorah and have shown their commitment to the organization and its mission:...
By Elaine K. Alexander, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 22, 2012
Meir Shalev is a prize-winning, Israeli novelist who has now written the second of two books on the Hebrew Bible. "Beginnings: The First Love, the First Hate, the First Dream, Reflections on the Bible's Intriguing Firsts" translated by Stuart Schoffman...
