Jewish Life

Someone Just Like You

Dani Shetrit — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:48:27 +0000

Jewish Life

Freema Gottlieb

Special To The Jewish Week

Shabbat Shalom
Candlelighting, Readings:
Candles: 7:31 p.m.
Torah readings: Lev. 19:1-20:27
Haftarah: Amos 9:17-15 (Ashkenaz);
Ezekiel 20:2-20 (Sephard)
Shabbat ends: 8:35 p.m.

Whereas Aaron’s two sons, Nadav and Avihu, die tragically for bringing uninvited offerings to God, in this week’s reading God goes out of his way to encourage the entire people, not only the crown princes of the priesthood, to “be holy” [Leviticus 19:2].

Advice for Life: The Difficult Congregant

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:51:17 +0000

Jewish Life

Michelle Friedman

Special To The Jewish Week

Q: How much eccentric behavior should a synagogue community tolerate?

I am the president of a small synagogue in the metropolitan area. Our staff consists of a part-time rabbi, a weekly bookkeeper and a maintenance person. Volunteers keep the synagogue going, and we pride ourselves on our welcoming environment. People of different ages and socioeconomic situations come to our services and programs.

Conservative Jewry’s Orthodox Rabbi

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:05:55 +0000

Jewish Life

by Steve Lipman

Staff Writer

So much for a quiet retirement.
About the time last month that Rabbi David Lincoln, senior spiritual leader for 21 years at Park Avenue Synagogue on the Upper East Side, stepped down from the pulpit, he appeared on a Jewish cable television show. Part of an interdenominational panel of Jewish leaders, he offered his comments on the series of scandals that have struck the Orthodox community in recent years.

What Matters On Sukkot

James Besser — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:17:31 +0000

Jewish Life

David Wolpe

Special to the Jewish Week

The Talmud has some advice: “A disciple of the wise may not live in a city which lacks one of the following ten things: a court, a charity-treasury with two collectors and three distributors, a synagogue, a public bathhouse, sanitary services, a physician, an artisan, a barber, a butcher, and a teacher of the young” (Sanhedrin 17b).

Sukkot Talmud