Trope Tools - Learn to Read Torah on the iPad
Rabbi Eli Garfinkel, rabbi of Temple Beth El in Somerset, New Jersey and the techie behind the award-winning RabbiPod, has created his first app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad family of Apple...
View ArticleThe Tragedy Of Impossible Pluralism
Rabbi Gidon Rothstein Special To The Jewish Week Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:38 p.m. Torah: Lev. 16:1-20:27 Haftarah: Amos 9:7-15 (Ashkenaz); Ezekiel 20: 2-20 (Sephard) Havdalah: 8:41...
View ArticleThe Grasshoppers Come To Zero
Adena Berkowitz Special To The Jewish Week Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 8:11 p.m. Torah: Num. 13:1-15:41 Haftarah: Joshua 2:1-24 Havdalah: 9:20 p.m. c begins with the saga of the...
View ArticleShoftim: When Ideas Become Idols
This week's Torah portion, Shoftim, contains the prohibition "Do not erect or yourselves a sacred pillar (or monument,) which the Lord your God detests (Deuteronomy 16: 22). Sacred pillars were part...
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