At a solemn gathering of WNY clergy last Friday in commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue, Rev. Rochelle Robinson began by reading the list of the names of the victims. Not…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Vocalist Jay Dref
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Torah Thoughts – Behar-Bechukotai – Leviticus 25:1-27:34 – “Reflection on the One Year Anniversary of the Tops Tragedy
I had never envisioned writing a personal message to you, our congregants of Shir Shalom. Just like you, I am terribly troubled and feel helpless with such a tragedy right in our own city. The people living in the targeted…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week by Arlene Frank Hava Nagila (Let Us Rejoice), Sung by Harry Belafonte, 1960
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Torah Thoughts – Emor – Leviticus.21.1-24.23 – “The Spoken Word”
The name of this week’s Torah portion. Emor, comes from the root of one of the common words – ויאמר (vayomer). Normally Torah portions are named after an unusual word in the few verses of the portion to help assist the…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, (Jerusalem of Gold) Sung by Shuli Nathan
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Torah Thoughts – Acharei Mot-Kedoshim – Leviticus 16:1-20:27 – “Happy 75th Birthday Israel!”
Seventy-five years ago this past Wednesday David Ben Gurion stood up in Independence Hall in Tel Aviv and announced to the world on live radio: “WE, MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE’S COUNCIL, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ-ISRAEL AND OF…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Deborah Sacks Mintz singing Lincoln’s Nigun – Yamin U’smol by Joey Weisenberg of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute
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Torah Thoughts – Tazria-Metzorah – Leviticus.12.1-15.33 – “Let This Not Be the Last of Us”
Cordeyceps is the fungus that infects humans in HBO’s “The Last of Us” that turns them into zombies. In the television series based on a hit video game, global warming enables this real fungus that causes ants to dig their…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – L’cha Dodi by D’ror Sinai From A Mizrahi Shabbat at Sinai Temple, Los Angeles
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