Holidays – The Neshamah Center

Tisha b’Av 5784 and Gaza

“Eicha?” “How can it be?” The opening word of the book of Lamentations challenges us to think about why disaster

The Talmud teaches that the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE because of baseless hatred. In

Fifty-six years ago yesterday on the Jewish calendar something amazing happened. A war was raging on multiple fronts, with Syria

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