Early this past Sunday morning Buffalo time, the two-time defending champion US Women’s National Team took on Sweden’s national team in the first-round knockout at this year’s World Cup in Australia. The match was tied 0-0 after over 120 minutes,…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – 40 Essential Yiddish Words & Expressions – Tamar Meisels – 8/7/23
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Torah Thoughts – Eikev – Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25 – “Even if…”
This week’s Torah portion begins with a proposition: “if you obey these rules and observe them carefully, God will…” (and I paraphrase) be good to you. This is the essence of the covenant between the Jewish people and God: in…
Torah Thoughts – Vaetchanan – Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11 – “Destruction and Renewal”
This was a week where the world of yesterday and the world of today seemed to collide. At the same time as hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Jerusalem to protest changes made by the Knesset…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Sha’arei Dim’ah by Eitan Kantor – 7/24/23
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Torah Thoughts – Devarim – Deuteronomy.1.1-3.22 – “Speaking in Many Places at Once”
Last Sunday, I led a service at the Holloway Memorial Chapel in Canada, a few miles down the road from Crystal Beach. This is something I have done once a summer for the past decade, replacing Rabbi Marty Goldberg, who…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – A powerful song of Creation and Light – 7/17/23
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Torah Thoughts – Matot Masei – Numbers 30:2-36:13 – “Finding Home at Shir Shalom”
Elvis Presley famously sang, “Home is where the heart is.” The poet Robert Frost countered, home is “the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” For the Reubenites and Gaddites in this week’s…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Hayom T’amtzeinu (Today, may you strengthen us) – 7/10/23
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Torah Thoughts – Pinchas – Numbers.25.10-30.1 – “Radical Egalitarian in Judaism”
In 11th Grade, I spent the Fall semester studying at Tichon Ramah Yerushalayim in Jerusalem, Israel. There we were expected to not only attend classes, but also attend regular daily liturgical services or minyan we organized ourselves. Largely coming from…