Published on April 3rd, 2023 | by Natan Diacon-Furtado
What is the connection between cleaning our things and miracles? As I write this blog I look over my desk with its piles of papers and folders, books and pens, a couple of cans of tile... Read More →
Published on March 6th, 2023 | by Natan Diacon-Furtado
Purim is about the miracles that can happen in our daily lives In the Purim story Esther, Mordecai and the Jews of Persia face imminent destruction. But are saved in the end, not by God coming... Read More →
Published on December 12th, 2022 | by Natan Diacon-Furtado
I always hear people say that Hanukkah is really a minor holiday. It’s just inflated because it’s close to Christmas, and so forth. I understand, but it pains me because Hanukkah is as deep and meaningful... Read More →
Published on October 26th, 2022 | by Natan Diacon-Furtado
We are now approaching Halloween, and I’m reflecting on the connection between this fun, but pretty trivialized and commercialized secular American holiday and the Jewish High Holidays that we just finished celebrating. This year the High... Read More →
Published on September 23rd, 2022 | by Jacob Sapon
We’re honored to share this message from Rabbi Sid Schwarz, originally published in Kenissa Connections. — So many individuals in our Kenissa Network are making important contributions to North American Jewish life. Many of those contributions often manifest... Read More →
Published on September 13th, 2022 | by Jacob Sapon
by Rabbi Natan Margalit Originally published in The Times of Israel Composting is one of my core spiritual practices.* Almost daily I take my green two-gallon kitchen collector filled with old cucumber or banana peels, stale... Read More →
Published on March 14th, 2022 | by Jacob Sapon
This year many of us are thinking about Purim in the context of the horrible war of Russian aggression in Ukraine. It is not hard to imagine Putin as a Haman-like figure, or as an embodiment... Read More →
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