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THE SURVIVOR: A POEM BY MATTHEW OSTROVE

He wakes up wet lying on a stone for the night brought dreams of death, His body, shriveled so thin that you can see his every movement of breath. He looms in the darkness looking for a reason for why this is happening to him. Did he make the right decision to leave...
MOUNT SINAI; ITS MEANING

MOUNT SINAI; ITS MEANING

This past weekend we celebrated Shavuot, the holiday that commemorates receiving the Torah from G-d at Mount Sinai. The very name of the Mount Sinai has become closely intertwined with the Torah itself. So much so, that the first statement of Pirkei Avot (Ethics of...

REFLECTIONS ON WHY LIMMUD WAS SUCH A WINNING RECIPE

The first Limmud Festival of Jewish Learning organized by the Jewish Federation and the Rady JCC was one of the best community programs I have ever been to—hands down. It is a program that I can easily see as only growing in the future, and I am pleased to...