May 2011 – The Neshamah Center

Yom Yerushalayim 5771

Tuesday night, May 31, the 28th of Iyar on the Jewish calendar, we mark Yom Yerushalayim, “Jerusalem Day,” the

This d’var Torah was written for and first published on the Rabbis for Human Rights web site. “And the Lord

Last Thursday (May 19), US President Barack Obama gave a very pro-Israel speech (the full text of his speech is

If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them…I will give peace in the land,

Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit; But

Memorial Day (Yom Hazikaron) is a very different experience in Israel than in America. In America, Memorial Day is a