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Rabbi's Dispatch from Israel

Rabbi's Dispatch from Israel

“How was your vacation in Israel?” a friend asked. Ha! I wanted to laugh. It was in no way a vacation, especially with the Houthi alarm service (not recommended on Yelp!) waking us up every night of Chanukkah between 2-5am. How do people there deal with this?!? And by this, I mean more than missile attacks from Yemen every night (though that is certainly a large piece of the horror). We were staying in Beit Shemesh (midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv)…
The Tanakh / Bible Comes Alive

The Tanakh / Bible Comes Alive

This week’s parsha, Vayechi, concludes the book of Bereisheet / Genesis, and with it the story of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs. When we read the book of Shemot / Exodus next week, this family will have become a nation. Vayechi describes how Yaakov / Jacob dies after blessing his sons, and the haftarah connected with this parsha describes how King David dies after giving his last will and testament hundreds of years later.

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