Barry Leff, Author at The Neshamah Center

Chaye Sarah 5783 – Interfaith Marriage and Conservative Judaism

Imagine this scenario. A young woman who grew up in this synagogue, who had her baby naming and bat mitzvah

I came to Montreal in May to look for a place to live. Pretty much everyone from the community with

You’re going to die. So am I. So are all of us. I realize this does not come as news

If you listen to different people talking about Israel it can be bewildering, because it sounds impossible that they are

What kind of Jew are you? For a group of only about 15 million people, we have a bewildering array

Hayom harat olam. Those are words we will recite many times over the course of Rosh Hashanah. Our machzor translates