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Love is in the Air (and the Torah!)
by Arliene Botnick, July 30, 2020
It’s not February – therefore we can’t celebrate Valentine’s Day. And with all deference to Al Capps L’l Abner, most don’t even know about Sadie Hawkins Day, when, in Dog…
Read More »I Am a Jew Because…
by Arliene Botnick, July 2, 2020
Each year, a “Beit Din” (house of judgement = Rabbinic panel) is held to meet with students who have been enrolled in the Jewish Information Class (JIC) in order to…
Read More »The Lessons of the Journey
by Arliene Botnick, May 27, 2020
Rabbi Ben Bag Bag has told us that all the answers are there. The Torah can explain it all: “Turn it and turn it again for everything is in it.”…
Read More »The Brick and the Builder
by Arliene Botnick, April 30, 2020
In the midrash Tanchuma Noach 18, we read an amazing and prescient prophesy of what happens when self aggrandizement and a distortion of values infects a society, the society that…
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