Benefit of the Doubt?
When we last left this narrative a donated Sefer Torah was found to be seriously “pasul” (unusable) and it had mysteriously disappeared from the congregation. This was the Torah donation…
The Rabbis, the scribe, the Torah and the Tefillin
A change in clergy can create a power vacuum that requires time to stabilize. It is not easy being the emeritus of a congregation: You’ve spent so many years intimately…
Parshat Zachor
Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt; he met you by the way and smote the hindmost of you, all that…
The Perils of Growth: Part I
There is a story told about a circus bear: obtained as a cub, it spent its life in a cage 20 feet long and 8 feet wide. Each day it…
