Parashat Re’eh begins with G-d telling the Israelites, “See, I have given before you a blessing and a curse…” Basically, if we follow G-d’s ways we will be blessed, and if we follow strange gods, we will be cursed. The word re’eh means “see,” but in this case, it’s...
Bamidbar/Numbers Chapter 20 is bookended by the deaths of Moses’ siblings, Miriam and Aaron. In between, Moses hits the rock to get it to bring forth water, and God tells both him and Aaron that they won’t enter the Promised Land with the people. The Israelites...
Today is May 4, which should have been my father’s 91st birthday. Instead, just weeks before his 77th, he died suddenly following what we assume was a heart attack. Twelve hours after he was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead, we received a call from the “organ...
This d’var Torah was written for the website of the Academy for Jewish Religion (ajr.edu) A few years ago, for Mother’s Day, my kids gave me a DNA-testing kit from Ancestry.com. Not surprisingly, the results came back as 99% Ashkenazi Jewish with 1%...
Graphic of the post for the commemorative event, NAACP Lakeview Branch On May 12, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Lakeview, on the other side of Ocean Avenue from Malverne, to support school desegregation. In fact, the Malverne school district, which...
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