March 28, 2013 4:01 pm Obama’s seder and seeing the Other Last Monday evening, President Barack Obama gathered with his family, members of his staff and other guests, many of them Jews and African-Americans, to hold his fifth seder since...... 3
December 31, 2012 10:09 pm What shall we remember from 2012? The end of year 2012 coincides with the end of days for our Patriarch Jacob, which was the focus of the biblical reading last Shabbat. Jacob, lying on his deathbed,...... 3
December 20, 2012 2:50 am The making of a miracle: the chief rabbi and the imams Miracles have always played a major role in Jewish history; indeed, the very survival of the Jews as a people, despite nearly 2000 years of exile and persecution, is...... 19
September 11, 2012 10:12 am This Rosh Hashanah, pray for Muslim-Jewish peace Next week, on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish community will gather together to read the Torah portion detailing one of the earliest and most troubling family rivalries in human history...... 10